A Masterpiece!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Blistering performances.

Okay, first let me admit that this is NOT a 10 out of 10 film... However, I felt it necessary to balance the 1 out of 10 that so many reviewers gave.That being said, I would probably give this film a 6 or 7. Sure it isn't the best overall film that I have seen, but it does have its merits and it is obvious that a great deal of thought & care went into making this film! Being a westerner, I pose this question... "How cool would it be to see a film shot entirely in Bulgaria?!" As adyankov from Bulgaria states, "This movie really was made for a Bulgarian audience and features all sorts of coy little inside jokes in the plot"After seeing this film I now have great interest in going to Sofia, Bulgaria!Further, if one can just let go of expectations and watch the film for what it is, it can be a Beautiful experience! I enjoyed watching Elika & Donald -- and I have always been a sucker for Christian Slater. As far as the 'Belly Dancing' goes -- there is the dancing with the main dancer that Christian's character eyes, to me it is much like watching the old time James Bond movie(s). "Sometimes 'Less- is- More'!"To find out more, I recommend reading the review by 'adyankov from Bulgaria'!

This was painful to watch, I sat through 42 minutes of this film and then gave up. The acting was horrible, the camera work was bad, and several things didn't even make sense. This is one of those films where you know the actors took their roles just to pay the bills, which is sad because I normally enjoy Christian Slater and Donald Sutherland. Also I really hate having to read subtitles, if you can speak English just do it, it's easier on the viewer! **SPOILER** Just one example of how stupid this film was, in the first 20 minutes of this film, a VHS tape is thrown into a post of boiling water and the tape catches on fire... that's how this movie works. Don't waste your time on this stinker.

I'm not sure what this movie was supposed to be but it came off as the wet dream of a belly dancer enthusiast with some unrealistic and confusing story thrown in. I don't know how to write 7 more lines when all that really needs to be said is that this movie sucks! I don't know how you could write a spoiler to this movie as the plot is so full of holes or any shred of believability that it is spoil proof. Actually, saying that the movie sucks is a bit of a spoiler because that is the core of the whole thing... suck-dom. It's a complete mess and awkward. Even the ending sucks big time. It was such a simplistic story that they could have wrapped it up easy but they did not. There are characters introduced and developed (Well, kinda but not really of course) and then they disappear...This movie sucks!

OK, technically it is not rotten, just a completely amateur effort. They had some interesting camera work and Slater and Sutherland of course do respectable acting jobs, but that is IT as far as things to like. Wow, the story is just SO lame, really not sure how they got those two guys to do the movie, but I am thinking it probably included a few dollar signs. The budget listed on IMDb is $5 million, I am assuming that each guy got a LEAST a million to swallow their pride and do this pig. Where to start with the bad stuff, hmmmm. Hiring actresses to be featured belly dancers in the same bar that they go to EVERY night that are obviously NOT, including the main actress who looks more like she has Parkinsons or something. Having the same actress be 3 women (without being recognized immediately) basically by switching wigs is very "supermannish" of them. She has a raised mole over her right eyebrow, kind of gives it away. And trying to present her as this ravishing beauty is also hiLARious! The main plot point about having to put the "retired US spy" on the case to figure out why someone is killing terrorists in Bulgaria is puzzling as well. Why the hell would we care? I swear this was written by kids in 6th grade, I could go on forever about the stupidity in the script. Even the title is meant to sound enticing, but is just infantile. Save yourself the 90 minutes and do just about ANYTHING else, this thing is a LAME JOKE!