Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Uneven pacing hinders this quirky, predicable, romantic film in which a highly skeptical, British fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor), who is unhappily married to a stuffed shirt (Rachael Stirling), joins an enthusiastic financial consultant (Emily Blunt), whose boyfriend (Tom Mison) is serving in Afghanistan, to fulfill the dream of a fly-fishing, forward-thinking, wealthy sheikh (Amr Waked) who wants to build a sustainable salmon fishery in the middle of the desert in Yemen when the no-nonsense press officer (Kristin Scott Thomas) to the prime minister takes the highly implausible project under her wing in a farfetched attempt to improve Middle East relations.
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