i would much rather be sting by a thousand dung beetle ( do those critter sting . ) while up to my neck in raw faeces in the middle of a hot and humid african jungle than have to endure another viewing of this awful movie . well . now that i have get that off my chest and allow me and kind reader and to expound . after the piano and that most enchanting of movie and i become a campion fan and couldn not wait for her next offering . i guess this be a case of be careful what you wish for . holy smoke be the complete antithesis of the piano in every regard from interest story to great scenery . while i recognize her zeal for explore the off beat and zany and this story have little to recommend it . the story begin somewhere in india and wanders over to somewhere in australia and finally end up rather ignominiously somewhere in the australian outback ( ugh ) and be replete with such theme a the search for enlightenment and muscle bound idiot and antler on speed car and old vs. young and man vs. woman and tom cruise and matt damon inspire adultery and attempted rape and battery and and get this and self urination . if that doesn not give you a feeling of how haphazard the movie be and i do not know what will . where there be indeed many part of the story that border on funny and be sometimes even thought provoking and the overall feel of this movie be as arid a the outback . one get the feeling that the writer only goal be to shock a many of u viewer a possible in one big swoop down . walk out of the theater make me feel like a cute and innocent rabbit ( ahem . ) who be suddenly be pluck out of some idyllic field by a terrible eagle on it way to be feed to the eaglet . oh . and see keitel be pimpled butt do not help much either . say and jane and get off the hashish . represent ) .