Salmon Fishing in the Yemen: A Real Catch.

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen will change your life. Momentarily. This feeling will soon pass and you'll realise that the characters you fell in love with were particularly more annoying than you first assumed. Regardless of this fact, for a cinema experience, it's pure gold. The basic plot line of the movie is that a ridiculously wealthy sheikh wants to invest upwards of 50 million POUNDS into introducing fly-fishing to the Yemen. The only problem is, the Yemen experiences an inundation, however, when it is not undergoing its period, it is dry and barren and becoming more and more of an analogy for the female reproductive system as I type.

The mission is arranged through Emily Blunt's character who has a ridiculously long name and researched by Ewan Mcgregor's Dr. Jones (insert outbreak into AQUA here).What ensues is more of a development of characters and the growth and expansion of their faith in something that was not believed possible. The scientific aspects of the film are put on the back burner as Blunt and Mcgregor's unspecified romance begins to spawn. There are several back-stories to each character with Blunt's fast tracked romance with Robert, the British Army participant, Mcgregor's crumbling relationship with his wife, Sheikh Muhammed's price on his head for defying god for altering his creation and the MVP of the film, Kristin Scott Thomas as Patricia Maxwell, the silver tongued PR adviser for the Prime Minister. The story grips you as it turns from disbelief to achievement and the concept is something that everyone should be able to relate to. The cons of the film are the fact that it takes a while to actually like Mcgregor's character and after the closure you're still not entirely sure you do like him and his unnatural tendency towards our omega-3 bearing friends. Furthermore, I found it particularly hard to sympathise with Blunt's character when Robert went MIA in action as she had only been seeing the man for 3 months. I have kept a toothbrush longer than that! If Sergeant Robert had made more of an appearance to begin with, the viewer might nearly have missed his presence, as it stands, we did not.

Scott-Thomas' character is gold, and her instant messaging with the Prime Minister is witty and effective for a shout out to pop-culture and the way we interact, or rather, don't interact today. Mcgregor is quite good with his fishy-obsessed self, but as alwayss Blunt is amazing channeling pure emotion even when she has Moet and it's clearly unwarranted and she will obviously move on. The film also has beautiful cinematography which accompanied with the ambience and score, crafts it into a tranquil piece of cinema that finds a way to touch you, in ways you probably didn't think legal in public. The underlying fish theme and swimming against the current carries a film that you should most likely tell your friends to watch.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen has earned 4.5 fishes.