Arabesque review
...g Mr. Pollock beating up Sloan was a far-fetched sight, his dodging the wrecking ball unbelievable, and avoiding the bullets and destroying the helicopter with a ladder at the end or when Yusphef Kaseme is electrocuted by the wrecking ball striking the switchboard were implausible. The dialog within the movie was appalling. The abysmal interchange between characters when Mr. Pollock dropped the secret message from Jasmine in his soup, the ensuing conversation was nothing but a question and answer segment that went absolutely nowhere. Jasmine blurting out that she is a spy as she passes Mr. Pollock on an escalator in a crowded place was absurd. Mr. Pollock is a college professor, ruled by routine before he is brought into the action. Once he has become a part of the ever changing diabolical plot to find and decipher the message, he is very much like a fish out of water, clearly out if his environment. He is extremely naive and is inclined to believe anything that is told to him. The motion picture is an action thriller all the way through. Mr. Pollock is recruited by who he believes is the Prime Minister of an un-named Middle Eastern country to work for Bejarbi on decoding a message. Mr. Pollock spend the majority of the movie being deceived by Jasmine, as he is led into the middle of a complex web of motives, schemes, and crimes, before it all comes to a head when a fake Prime Minister is shot and the true one is abducted. The cast of Arabesque appeared to have been chosen sight unseen, as almost every role was that of an Arab, but most of the actors playing the role were white. Bejarbi and Yusphef both were Middle Eastern characters played by white men with accents clean as a whistle. The actor who played Ragib was an excellent choice as a professor, as the elderly man with thick glasses and balding white hair exemplifies our typical image of a professor. Prime Minister Yana’s actor was a logical c...