Amira & Sam (2014)

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Fresh and Exciting

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It looks good, but not very enjoyable. I would have liked if it was focused only on Sam about a soldier's struggle since his return from the war like the 2009 film 'The Messenger' perhaps. The Amira's character seems deliberately put in, especially in the present western world scenario to tell what's wrong with them. So sorry, this did not click for me. But I like some parts, like how the character Amira transformed compared to the beginning and ending.Martin Starr was at his best and that's why its watchable. Some people might like the film for its simpleness, but the screenplay should have been improved. They covered many topics like wall street, unemployed ex soldier, immigrant et cetera in 90 minutes, but when it comes to the romance part, the reality was missing. So like I said, intentionally the lead two characters put together to bring attention, rather to tell a neat romantic tale.It it like 'Learning to Drive' kind of film. That aimed to reveal the cultural clash between two and how it stands as an obstacle between their feeling to each other. This is not for everybody, even the middle eastern audience might be annoyed about how Amira was portrayed in a few scenes. But those are the parts I liked the most from it. Just once watchable.4/10

12 January 2016: I am a strong supporter of Interracial Love stories between men and women of all races since I live in an Interracial marriage myself. My favorites are "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", "Something New", "Our Family Wedding", "The Lovings", "Fools Rush In", "Guess Who", "Zebrahead", "Mississippi Masala"and "Forbidden Fruits" to name a few. I can now add "Amira and Sam" to my list, which I found by accident on the i-net. This movie is great from start to finish for various reasons. The entire cast was great, especially the two leads. Writer/Director Sean Mullin does a great job with this movie.When Americans think of Interracial Love, we usually do Not think of American soldiers in love with Arab women or Arab women in love with American soldiers especially from such countries as Iraq or Afghanistan due to all the problems we have especially post 9-11. That is like sleeping with the enemy. If or when it does happen, it is very rare and neither side wants to open their hearts and minds to accept such a couple due to racism, bigotry and terrorism in America. Middle Eastern women of Arab and Israeli decent are at times disowned by their immediate families for falling in love with men of a different race. God does Not see skin color, God only sees the heart and mind. It is easy to fall in love and marry a person of the same race and nationality, but it takes a special effort and an open heart and mind to love and marry another race. In this movie, we see the Amira, a tough young woman, with a hard turtle shell on the outside that wants nothing to do with Americans due to her brother was killed by an American soldier in her country. She is full of anger towards Sam because he is an American soldier. She is rambling on in anger with her uncle, but I love when Sam responds in Arabic and she is stunned and ask "You speak Arabic?" Sometimes I get a similar reaction when people hear me reply in Spanish or Hebrew, which are not my native languages.Midway into this movie, Amira begins to drop her hard turtle shell exterior by sleeping next to Sam in his bed. I love their first kiss, which is so sweet and innocent like two people who have never romantically kissed before, which leads to more kissing with passion. When it starts to get hot and heavy, she tells him to stop and he did what all men should do stop and respect her wishes.The ending was good, but I wish that they would have gotten married by the end of the film. Great movie. I give "Amira & Sam" a ten, two thumbs up, way up high.

I would call this film a very easy seeing romantic movie I have ever came across.The storyline had so many surprises to it like Amira wasn't just an ordinary Muslim girl, she acted so chilled and hip unexpectedly . As for Sam, he locked a couple of teenagers to an elevator, just because he was cheesed off with them picking on him. It's a very odd twist that Sean Mullin wrote in the story. You wouldn't see a solider doing that kind of thing but I was wondering why it didn't show his flashback as soldiers would unfortunately experience.Anyways, I honestly thought Paul Wesley was James Franco. He has the attitude and the looks. He seriously needs to be in more movies and be in Franco's films. Then people will think he is James Franco's clone.Watch it peeps!

First of all, the story line and the overall flow of the story seems to be very slow and distracted taking 3 stories going into 3 different directions with a very weak relationship between these stories. Very predictable ending with no attention to grab the audience's attention to any overall idea or feeling. On the other hand, even though throughout the movie I was feeling annoyed and disgust by the way the writer represented the Arab culture "my culture" in this unrealistic and irrational way. Through the whole movie, I was trying to understand the main hook or purpose behind the story, but found nothing but trying to misrepresents the actual Arabic culture and values in a way which suits the writer's fantasies and the movie sponsor's political goals. Therefore, in my opinion this movie disrespects the Arabic and Islamic values on many levels.