Review of Marrakech Express

Marrakech Express is the kind of movie you watch to pass time. It does not demand effort watching it. Its bigger qualities are the music, simply amazing from Dalla to DeGregori; and the sense of the journey.

It is as typical on the road movie in which you do not care about reaching the end but about what you feel while traveling. This is enhanced by the fact that their hopes, and expectations upon the arrival in Marrakech are shuttered. It is all about the journey. Most importantly, Salvatores appeals to a large public by setting up some topos, especially for Italian viewers. Everyone, has good memories of highschool friends, and everyone lost contact to them through the years. Salvatores imagines a reunion. And as said in the movies "It is like we neve separated". The characters are fairly simple and do not go through an immense development throught the movie.

On the negative side, we have pay attention to how the actors are not used to their full potential. The cast is extraordinary. In my opinion with such a ast the director could have focused more on personal development of the characters.

Overall it is a fairly simple movie about a journey and friendship, that could have been more than that.