Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Lasse Hallström, 2011)

This does indeed cover what it says on the tin, and makes sure we understand where we're going straightaway too, with Ewan McGregor's salmon specialist signposted as a closet romantic who'll end up with Emily Blunt's financial consultant as they chug along exclaiming disbelief at the conceit, namely creating a salmon-fishing river in the desert.
The film wants to have its cake and eat it by satirising a political establishment that wants to fix its Middle East image problem with a cuddly project and at the same time wanting to bolster the thin plot with spurious Islamist terrorists trying to sabotage the dam required because it's a Western symbol or somesuch thing. The fruit of their labours ends up wet and shallow, the appositeness of which hardly needs pointing out. Kristin Scott Thomas emerges from it best as the PM's press secretary, an over-the-top bitch of the first order and a departure from her serious roles that she sinks her teeth into with obvious relish.

4/10