Curse of Mesopotamia

This film is so good i almost watched 2 times i have to watch it again because it is so good

How did this movie get rated 8.7 of out 10. It's terrible. Wooden acting, hackneyed plot w/unattractive, improbable characters, inept directing, and the slowest pacing outside of watching paint dry.

Improbable characters seeking therapy for a communal dream are a psychiatrist (who believes in taking her traumatized patients on a junket to war torn Iraq), a black homosexual stud, a reformed porn star actress, a mute artist, a Mister Everyman, and an Islamic jihadist. Don't see many jihadists seeking therapy. In general, I don't think they're that introspective. Sounds like fun? It isn't thanks to the above flaws.

Favorite line - psychiatrist to jihadist, "I don't think joining a terror group is the answer to your problems", delivered by the actress without a trace of irony.

Based on 8.7 rating at the time, I rented this movie. IMDb owes me $4.99.

I suspect the director's friends and the cast and crew are responsible for the favorable ratings. Don't be fooled this movie is terrible.

I have honestly seen better acting in pornographic movies. In fact, the crappy far-fetched plot, the stilted acting (and in some cases over-acting) and the "exotic" mansion & location, I had to double check my purchase to make sure I wasn't in fact, watching an X rated movie. Maybe it would have been more interested if I had been though. It felt like an eternity for this movie to end with it's predictable plotlines, horrific acting and inane script. I BOUGHT this drivel (I was probably buzzed) after seeing the positive ratings on IMDB and, at the time, I did think it's synopsis sounded okay. Joke was on me.

Building on the first user review "I suspect fraud," I too suspect fraud. When I purchased it from Amazon Prime on demand, I too did so based on an extremely high IMDb rating - 8.4 in this case.

Almost as soon as I started watching it, I realized something was wrong. I asked my intellectual, millennial son to start watching with me on the chance that the movie was meant to be ironic, - so bad that it would actually be funny. It was not. We struggled to keep with it for about half the movie but gave up. I thought perhaps the high score was due to there being only a few ratings. I was later surprised to find 90 ratings on IMDb but only the one review.

I don't know all the terminology of professionally made movies, but the sound (much echo), cinematography, editing, transitions, - everything was terrible. I might say it had the quality one might expect from a college film project but that would be too harsh to college film students.

I don't know who these actors are (the description touts them as an "international cast"), but to a person, the acting was terrible. I would agree with "wooden" as the other review labeled it.

My favorite line: the psychiatrist takes the five patients to a massive, historical stone fortress that is the same as the one in each of their dreams. One patient exclaims: "It's exactly the same. Did you have them build it?"

I don't need my money back; I'll chalk it up as an experience. It prompted me to write my first IMDb review so I'll settle for the feeling of self-righteous satisfaction in warning off others smart enough to look at IMDb before renting the movie.

I have to agree with the previous 2 reviewers; I cannot for the life of me figure out how anyone could honestly rate this movie over a 1. The only solution I have for the high rating is that the cast and crew all rated it a 10. My husband and I were disappointed that we relied on IMDb rating and rented this waste time. However, we learned our lesson and will read the reviews before renting another movie.

I would agree with everything the previous reviewers said. I would also add, the fight scenes reminded me of children slap fighting (you know, heads turned, lashing out blindly in fear of hurting or being hurt). While that might have given the movie a moment of comedic relief, they tried to hide the problem with editing and changing camera angles--leaving the viewer little time to absorb the full absurdity.

Cannot say one good thing about this movie. Nothing.