When this was first made it was called "The Bubble", and it was good. This isn't. The storyline and characters are undeveloped and therefore uninteresting. Two men, one Palestinian, one Israeli, fall in love (i guess) and that's a complicated arrangement what with border crossings, etc.... It is formulaic. But what it boils down to is two pretty boys gazing into one another's eyes. There, that's the plot. Oh yeah, and the Middle East conflict rages on around them with all the weight of a daytime soap opera. There is no dramatic support for their attraction to one another and no visceral connection between the actors to convey it. And, you don't care because they are so two dimensional it doesn't matter. This is a film devoid of dramatic tension.
Review of Out in the Dark
