Sasha M

I wanted to watch this with my Khmer fiancee. I was proud to have found it for her, but almost from the beginning I felt something was off. I remember watching The Killing Fields when I was young, and although I was too young then to fully understand and appreciate the horrors of Khmer Rouge, I still remember the turmoil that would remain me with me for the rest of my life. The feeling of helplessness that would follow me right to the Museum of Genocide in Phnom Penh, where I was shown just how well the movie depicted the true horrors of that movement. And yet here in this movie, everything was just flat. Everything happens so fast, without culmination and resolution. The protagonist, almost emotionless throughout the movie, has the camera fly around her, and after certain number of rotations, that's it - the movie is over. They skip straight from her being stuck in the minefield, right to the adult her, decades later, paying tribute to.. I'm not sure what. Nothing is clear in this movie. The number of times we lost track of the children and the plot.. Finally, at the end of the movie, we learned that Angelina Jolie had something to do with it, and that fully explained why the movie was so bad. This is so typical of obese Americans wanting to have the final word in everything and anything, and come out thinking themselves angles, even if they are the ones who contributed or even caused the terrible atrocities. I cannot help but notice that, like an insult to injury, the movie admits the USA bombed Cambodia, but only mentions the number of victims attributed to Khmer Rouge. I think the movie should not be watched by anyone - instead revisit The Killing Fields and visit the museum and the actual killing fields.

i had high hopes for this movie, until the scene where the protagonist is holding his pen like a retard. no, sorry, i do not relate to that. nor do i find it romantic that a retard somehow wows a beautiful asian lady and the audience is supposed to believe that a mentally retarded person is somehow capable of deep emotions

it's the big bang theory for beggars. on top of extreme unoriginality and cringe, some 21 minutes into the first episode he says, i don't like cats, can she get rid of it? so much for promoting understanding and tolerance. i stopped watching this rubbish at that point.

this movie had a budget of about $35 and the actors probably had to pay to be in it. everything in this movie is so unbelievably bad. from acting, to catastrophic lapses in logic that make this movie feel even cheaper.