Good film but not totally amazing.

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2013)

A good moderately dramatic story, which you can tell is roughly true to life. There is not enough back story and character buildup so we do not get the emotional investment needed to engage with the people in the film all the way to the end. The events carry a lot of emotional charge but for me - just not enough.
According to many of other users comments the main concerns are the family in the original true life story are Spanish => Non Northern European => basically Black Africans, replaced with tall blond perfect Aryan Specimens with a rosy English tint to them, and the second big racism charge is that native Indonesian's are used as mat's for white people to cross to safety which they gladly and willingly do.
OK, I can see why there is a feeling of ignoring the horrors the Thai's went through, we should have seen more native victims - but in a tourist resort, not the mainland, it probably was like this - and the natives are portrayed mono dimensionally like saints, but because this is just a story from one families perspective, there can be no Native narrative! As for the bunch of Blonde dopplegangers - One of the real life characters in the movie is now in the UK learning how to be a lifeguard. And I wouldn't know to look at him or any of the family if hes is Welsh, English or Spanish just as with any other European! The only racist here is the attempt by people to make hair colour racist. However, I agree totally thats there is a serious case of Hairism and Eyeism which should be reported to the police immediately.