An average movie

For some reasons, I actually ended up watching this flick in the movie theater when it was released and I wonder what made me choose this movie at the time. I guess, back in those days, I was watching maybe 3 movies every week in the movie theater so I wasn’t exactly really picky. Anyway, to be honest, even though it was fairly entertaining, somehow, it didn’t really blow me away though. I don’t know, the plot felt slightly too pedestrian and predictable to me. I mean, the culture clash was interesting but it was also cliché-ridden in my opinion. Furthermore, since they were so many children in this family, all of them had their own specific sub-plot and, a a result, instead of one fully-fledged story, they gave us instead a  whole bunch of half-baked little tales. After this movie, Damien O’Donnell  would make ‘Rory O'Shea Was Here’ which was really impressive but, unfortunately, it would be his last full length feature and he hasn’t done much during the following 10 years which is rather surprising considering that he seemed to have some potential. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, even though I thought it was slightly disappointing, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.