Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

dansview Propagandist garbage. What a colossal bore. By the way, who said that Wall Street is the American dream? Did this brainy immigrant ever visit Iowa and ask them what their American dream is? Perhaps owning a farm and loving Jesus is it.He already admitted that he understands what makes America great. He said it in his interview. I'll give credit to the writers or filmmakers for that. He explains that America will give a talented guy like him an equal opportunity to succeed. Which it did.But the rest of the film is about denigrating capitalism, and championing Third World pride. OK. Some Americans mistook him for a terrorist. That's unfortunate, but not worth giving up his American dream.The pacing was ridiculously slow. The manipulative sympathy-pandering was insulting. Who asked this guy to come to America, and who told his country to be a Third World embarrassment? It is what it is.I'm so sick of self-righteous movie propaganda. Talk about stacking the deck. Of all the American girlfriends to get, he finds one who bases an entire photography gallery exhibit on his ethnic identity, and treats it like a cartoon. What are the odd of that? But it certainly fits into the intention of demonizing Americans.The lead foreign guy was good. His demeanor and facial expressions seemed to convey true soul and feeling. You felt his pain and confusion. Why use Liev Schreiber? A Jewish guy in Pakistan? Of all the actors.The opening was good. I didn't know what exactly was going on, but the music was great. It shows a traditional Pakistani party setting, with emotional crooner music highlighted.You will appreciate Kate Hudson as a slightly beefy, serious underdog. I've never seen her in anything other than romantic comedies.The Kiefer Sutherland character is portrayed as some kind of capitalist demon. Some credit is due to the makers for having his character tell about his upbringing and longing for financial stability.The bottom line is that this film slams you over the head with a socio-cultural, political point of view. Americans are ignorant of the beautiful nuances of Third World culture. Brown skin and primitive beliefs are ultimately cooler than modern Western culture. Americans think everyone from a Muslim country takes his commands from the Koran.Avoid this pathetic snooze-fest, or steer your friends away.

Prismark10 The Reluctant Fundamentalist directed by Mira Nair wants to examine what it is to be liked to be caught up in a cross fire of differing cultures and religion which makes you question your own identity.In the background of the kidnapping of an American diplomat, a reporter, Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber) interviews a radical professor in Lahore called Changez (Riz Ahmed) who might be involved with the terrorist groups involved in the kidnapping and who is on the radar of the security services. Lincoln hopes that Changez will lead him to the kidnappers.Changez sits for an interview with Lincoln and figures out quickly that Lincoln is involved with the CIA. Changez protests his innocence and explains his life story as a Pakistani immigrant in America, who graduated from a top university and got a plum job in finance.Life was going well for Changez, he has a white American girlfriend, popular with work colleagues but things change after 9/11. Changez suffers from constant humiliation such as being strip searched at the airport, wrongful arrests, racial abuse. He finds other ethnic groups fearful in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.As time goes on Changez questions his identity, his relationship with his girlfriend suffers. During a trip to Istanbul for a hostile takeover, he meets a man who translated his father's poetry fro Urdu to Turkish and has a spiritual awakening that causes him to leave his job and travel to Pakistan to work as a professor. His teaching enlightens his students but also brought him into contact with more shady terrorist sympathisers.The film contained a lot of location shooting. The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, A fort in India and some location shooting in Pakistan as well as the USA.The central premise was intriguing but never reaches its full potential. Changez is a man who could had easily switched allegiance from his love of all things American to a Pakistani society who needs to wean off itself from imperialist nations.The resolution was rather ham fisted, tagged on to give the film some urgency and make it more thrilling. It did show elements of thoughtfulness but some of it just felt clumsy.Good performances from Ahmed, Schreiber and Kiefer Sutherland.

craigwest-91173 Just finished watching this film on Netflix and found it to be one of the best and most concise examinations of world conflict and the contributions made by misguided American foreign policy in concert with transnational corporations. Highly recommended. Whatever ones belief may be about 9/11 and who was ultimately responsible, after my initial shock and horror of that day's events I remember that my first concern was the potential knee-jerk reaction of our own citizens that would morph into a backlash against all foreigners who might appear to be ethnically related to the alleged hijackers. My concerns proved to be well founded, and the profiling attitude prevails to this day.It has been my privilege and pleasure to travel the world extensively, where I have met and worked with some of the nicest people and brightest minds in their respective nations, as well as working with a diversity of such individuals during a ten year professional career in Silicon Valley. Those travels have taken me throughout Asia, Europe, South Asia and the Middle East, including time in Iran, India, Egypt, and China. This film provides the sort of global perspective one must have to fully appreciate the huge misconceptions both here and abroad, and how these misconceptions can rapidly deteriorate into conflicts that become global in nature. And it is always the innocents who are caught in the middle of these conflicts who pay the dearest price.During military service that took me to Vietnam as a U.S. Navy photographer in 1967, '68 and '69 I remember a popular poster of that era that stated, "What if they gave a war and nobody came."

kosmasp Riz Ahmed has the most difficult role in this movie and he shoulders it more than bravely. His performance alone is worth for you to watch this very difficult movie. Obviously because of the topic, this won't be just a fun little movie to watch. Unlike his starring role in Four Lions, this is a serious attempt in showing and getting into the mind of someone affected by what happened after 9/11.Nair is a seasoned director and she knows the traps one can encounter when making a movie that stays ambiguous until the end. There is only two options, so saying you knew it all along makes no sense and is not what you should be focusing with this movie. Empathy but also understanding is something this movie tries to spread. If it wholly succeeds is up to the viewer, who has to stomach some cringe worthy decisions made by the characters in the movie. But that is life for you sometimes ... sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet