brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

FIrst, great job Mr Hanks and the whole team! Second, I love to see religions being openly and politely/nicely/lovingly challenged into pondering how sometimes they kill everything that is human in us. Nothing brutal here, so fear not and proceed. Third.... showing love is perhaps a virtue we need more than anything in our modern hectic society. I say that in regard to all the unthinking, senseless, sad and unreasonable amount of HATE people unleash out there, and in regard to the NEGATIVE comments on this movie - PLEASE DON'T MIND THEM, just watch this really nice decent lovely piece, and judge for yourself, or better yet, let yourself be taken on a nice Hanks ride, give judgement a break for once :) . I will say no more. Enjoy!

11:23 of watching and there is a lot of wrong in this movie. Mostly cultural.

Its not Saudi arabia They are shooting in a desert Saudi Arabia is not a desert There is no prayer at 9 am And the prayer call were in 9 am?

This movie just doesn't have it. The script writing was downright terrible. I cannot estimate who the target audience would have been. It releases itself of comical element very early on; the viewer is then stranded in the desert in a hopeless plot that even the producers seemed not to know where it was ending up. The film reaches for a solution to the nihilism of day-to-day life. Tom Hanks is a cinematic legend, but this is just some of his worst work.