review, for your sins

yesterday whilst perusing the one buck enjoyments, I thought to my very self "hmmm ... perhaps another bold foray into the land of rom, without the com?". will I never learn? will I? never? for MY sins, "cairo time". patricia clarkson, who specialises in a worried face and angsty middle age, plays opposite that rascally ex-trekker, alex siddiq. long suffering 50 yr old wifey agrees to meet long absent UN social worker type hubby in cairo after his lengthy stint on gaza strip. she arrives, he's late. very .. very late. so late, in fact, that she has time to almost nearly but not quite fall madly in love with the aforemention ex-trekker, who in this role is a former UN colleague of hubby's, now cafe owning egyptian (not bad for a blighty born and raised pakistani derived lad) who wears 'dresses' and smokes a hookah like a pro. what seemed like hours of moody glamour shots of scenery and pyramids and colourful yet inexplicably clean street markets, random inconsequential and never seen again secondary characters, and no fkn resolution! ie, they don't even KISS. where's the pay off in that? 0/10. and not just because she just worriedly dreams of fooling around and doesn't, but because it's an awful, awful movie. possibly some of the worst writing and directing I've seen in ... gee, yonks :D nope, if you want a rom based on straying marrieds, the only way to go is "a walk on the moon", where the pay off is not only all there, but it's paid by viggo. num num, lick lick :p