Beneath a Sea of Lights

This movie is the real meaning of the fantasy life in Dubai and how people fall prey to it. Barkhad Abdi's performance as always was a blinder! The other guy who acted with him was also brilliant. It really gets into your skin and makes you think if you really made a wise decision of leaving your motherland, just for this so called 'fantasy world of Dubai' to make money. Highly recommended! Total Gem!

Another reviewer wrote this was a low budget movie with bad actors. It's a thing I didn't get. I didn't see any bad acting at all. On the contrary I thought Barkhad Abdi and Jim Sarbh, the two main characters, did a good job. The only thing that didn't look real was a fight between them, but all the rest was more than decent. The movie isn't fast paced but it isn't really necessary to tell this story. It's a recognizable story about people trying to get by, both in their own way, in a country where luxuary is omnipresent. I thought it was worth a watch. I've seen thousands of worse movies so I'm not going to complain about this one at all.

In general, the movie was quite good but surly doesn't deserve less than 6 stars! Barkhad Abdi was super duper talented actor and he definitely deserves more than a few countable films to be in. The film has a really comforting directing and just remind me of the beautiful Dubai.

However, I didn't like that there was so many Indian actors and just felt that the film has been filmed in Mumbai! No offence but the film was in Dubai and at least there should have been more other nationalities.

After all, I think the story was not that strong but the ending was really very peaceful. I just liked it the way it was!

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The plot and the storytelling style is very good. Acting is brilliant too. Overall artistic and technical execution - specially editing and music is very filmic.

A must watch for 'good film' lovers.