I am hoping this is what it says in the script:
As Ewan and the Sheikh stand motionless in the river fishing, the nervous assassin waits behind a tree observing their non-movements. The assassin saunters a few feet out into the open. He lingers in the open field and decides to yell for a while before he pulls the trigger. Ewan McGregor pulls his fishing line out of the water and re-casts it one hundred feet through the air towards the yelling man and adds a magic spin on the line that whips the gun out of the assassins hand the moment before he can pull the trigger.
Anyway. I thought it was funny.
Although it is interesting to create a love story between two people that have other relationships that really have nothing wrong in them - for me, and maybe because of a lack of sexual chemistry between the main characters... I was not rooting for them to be together in the end. Harriet had a much more established and emotionally driven relationship with the man in the military and saw no reason for her to suddenly change her mind in the end of the film. It's time for more modern love stories and this was nearly there, and I respected the film for being realistic and not giving her a shallow boyfriend or him an incredibly cruel wife -- but maybe for this and other reasons the happy ending was not earned or justified by the rest of the film. It was an enjoyable experience, and I enjoyed all of the characters, but if it's supposed to be a satisfying love story I don't know why I was rooting for her to go with her military boyfriend at the end of the film.
As Ewan and the Sheikh stand motionless in the river fishing, the nervous assassin waits behind a tree observing their non-movements. The assassin saunters a few feet out into the open. He lingers in the open field and decides to yell for a while before he pulls the trigger. Ewan McGregor pulls his fishing line out of the water and re-casts it one hundred feet through the air towards the yelling man and adds a magic spin on the line that whips the gun out of the assassins hand the moment before he can pull the trigger.
Anyway. I thought it was funny.
Although it is interesting to create a love story between two people that have other relationships that really have nothing wrong in them - for me, and maybe because of a lack of sexual chemistry between the main characters... I was not rooting for them to be together in the end. Harriet had a much more established and emotionally driven relationship with the man in the military and saw no reason for her to suddenly change her mind in the end of the film. It's time for more modern love stories and this was nearly there, and I respected the film for being realistic and not giving her a shallow boyfriend or him an incredibly cruel wife -- but maybe for this and other reasons the happy ending was not earned or justified by the rest of the film. It was an enjoyable experience, and I enjoyed all of the characters, but if it's supposed to be a satisfying love story I don't know why I was rooting for her to go with her military boyfriend at the end of the film.