This films was a pleasant surprise for me. I was expecting a one-sided look at life in Israel, but the filmmaker made considerable effort to deal with difficult themes with a welcomed, distant perspective. I like that he does not choose sides in the Arab/Israel conflict but rather chooses to make both sides human. Thus both story and characters have shape and dimension that makes for interesting development. The acting is overall consistently good although some of the dialog is over-written. The worst part of the movie is in the ending where the filmmaker wraps characters and story up into a nice, happy, and forgiving ending--one in which a romance and forgiveness occurs that has no basis whatsoever for believing. To me, the ending was very disappointing and hurts the movie because it stoops to a "Pretty Woman" ending. It is not credible and, given the story's progression, undeserved.
Review of Walk on Water
