Michelle Foona

The setting is beautiful, the story is light...but I cannot get into Vince Vaughn as the main character; he is so wooden, it's awful. I don't understand why he's getting so much praise for this role. He and his love interest/costar have zero chemistry. I also feel like he tries too hard to emulate Christopher Walken. I also really dislike the narration.

While aspects of this movie were a bit far fetched, such as surviving the cold waters of the Irish sea while soaking wet the whole time, i really appreciated the message behind the film; a lesson in empathy for the human beings beyond our own shores who long for a safe, secure life for the people they love and are willing to risk death to find it.

I like Tom Hanks as an actor and while I think he and the others in this film did a great job, I feel like this movie relied much too heavily on cliche after cliche, which is too bad because I appreciated the subject matter.

So bad! If not for my general apathy that night for watching anything, along with the mildly cute Syrian taxi driver, I’d have turned it off after 10 minutes or so.