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Brilliant and touching

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This movie really captures the feeling of itinerary free travel. I tried to watch it again on Netflix but they had removed it from streaming video's so I bought the DVD. I will put this in my library at our camp on Lake Kabetogama-lakekabetogama.org Travel in Mexico and Central America with great scenery, the Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama's Darién Province in Central America from Colombia in South America is a route I've always wanted to travel with my Jeep Cherokee, but since I'll never make the trip I guess this is as close as I'll get. Efforts have been made for decades to remedy this missing link, The Gap in the Pan-American highway. Planning began in 1971 with the help of United States funding, but this was halted in 1974 after concerns raised by environmentalists. Another effort to build the road began in 1992, but by 1994 a United Nations agency reported that it would cause extensive environmental damage. The claim is there is evidence that the Darién Gap has prevented the spread of diseased cattle into Central and North America, which have not seen foot and mouth disease since 1954, and since at least the 1970s this has been a substantial factor in preventing a road link through the Darién Gap. Great movie!

I totally understood what the director/producers were trying to do with this film. But most of it was not true to real life. The casting was strange, it seemed they cast two Latin actors and one Latina in the principal roles, and made them out to be from the US and Prague. Where did Connor get all the money to do this traveling? I did allot of adventure travel when I was his age and it's not free! My guess is that they got really good tax credits from Peru, Nicargua, Panama,and Bolivia. Where did the funds come from for this type of film? Not one A list actor. But that's a good thing. I liked the fact that it was not a Hollywood movie. All in all I enjoyed it, and it made me want to travel again.

I do not disagree with most the negative comments the have been left previously. Motivations in particular were lacking. Some have said, "why would the main character have signed up". But why would any of the men have signed up? The leader of the expedition has his wife with him who fondles him at every opportunity. And anyone who has ever gone into the wild without an even male/female balance knows how the issue of animal husbandry rears its ugly head when people are away from society and their instincts take over. Also what kind of young men would sign onto an expedition where they can't have sex for a year or more?!And I am not trying to be funny. This seems very strange to me. And not one of the other guys tries to make a move on the other girl?!...ridiculous. As ridiculous as the two topless Nordic girls that grab the main character for a threesome. From a guys point of view, it made me happy and I laughed, but this guys ain't exactly Juan Bond.My biggest problem, however was the ending. He tells the girl that he's going to come with her to Prague. He makes a gigantic romantic speech to profess his love and tell her that he's addicted to her and then turns around and tells her he's not going with her.Plain and simply that just ticked me off. He's writing a book about travel, but can't travel to Eastern Europe to meet her family or help her deal with her dying father?! Nice guy. I love you but I rather go watch a eighteen inch geyser explode. Good grief...I enjoyed a lot of the film, but it isn't very well thought out. It does do a good job at exemplifying the virtues of freedom and travel, but also shows that is has a price...

Inevitable comparisons to "Motorcycle Diaries". Yes, there is a difficult trek through Central and South America. But that's pretty much where the similarities end.The Motorcycle Diaries succeeded because Che is a compelling character, not a fresh-out- of-high-school kid with a vindictive sense of humor. There is no self-discovery in this film; no greater themes (populism, for example, in MD).The main character in this film simply realizes he likes running away from his seemingly-cool family and being a man-child with no responsibilities. He's the embodiment of every guy in a midlife crisis who still wants to do "something really cool" with his life, to get away from it all, with a threesome in a Nicaraguan hotel thrown in for good measure.I will say that I laughed at certain points in this movie. The supporting characters are much more entertaining (not to say that Masterson was bad in the role; it's just not a very good role). But halfway through, when I started groaning and rolling my eyes more than laughing, it became less and less worth standing in line at the Philly Film Festival for.