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Pretty but two-dimensional
Just because this is about the plight of Tibet, a genuinely important and moving subject, does not mean that it is a good film. I have to confess that I stopped watching after something like an hour; by that point Brad Pitt and companion had entered Lhasa and had encountered a couple more stock characters ('love interest' and 'man with a grievance who will betray his people') but had not yet met the Dalai Lama. I was so bored, however, I had no interest whatsoever in finding out what happened when they did. To me this film, or at least the first half that I saw, was typically overblown and ultimately shallow Hollywood: stock characters having predictable character-development experiences in exotic locations which stand in for content. Judging from the reviews here it seems to have worked for a lot of people. If you go for the blatantly obvious tugging-at-your-heart-strings kind of thing (central character starts out unpleasant and selfish, goes through difficult experiences, and gradually learns to think about others, with each step along the way illustrated by little set-piece episodes) you will probably like this. If you like films with genuinely complex characters, plot, and dialog you probably will not like this. The landscape does at least look good. If you're a Brad Pitt fan--admittedly I am not one of them--you will think he looks good too and might therefore be willing to overlook his poor acting and accent.

a very good movie
We enjoyed this movie trememdously. It points out the trajedyof Tibet.

Slow to start, but picks up later
The story was interesting, but there are several parts that don't make immediate sense. You have to just wait a moment and it gets explained soon after the confusing scene. It's a movie that makes you smile, chuckle, shake your head in disbelief. Wonderful to see the relationship between "Henry" and His Holiness.

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