Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)

I watched this film for one reason, to see if Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor would end up together. And, spoiler alert, they do, though I still would have liked a more permanent ending to confirm that, after they rebuild the dam.
The film isn't bad, it just isn't particularly great or extraordinary though both Emily and Ewan are two of my favorite actors and at least they deliver pretty good performances in a merely mediocre film.
Emily is Harriet Chetwole-Talbot who works managing the finances of the Sheikh (pronounced Shake) of Yemen's finances and he (Amr Waked) wants to have salmon fishing as he loves fishing and believes that it will improve the environment and economy of his country. Though Dr. Alfred Jones (McGregor) doesn't think the project will work, he is forced to pursue it because it is a positive story coming out of the Middle East and the PM's Press Secretary (Kristin Scott-Thomas) needs that for the press. So he does that reluctantly. He almost resigns, hoping to have a baby with his career-minded wife, Mary (Rachael Stirling), but she goes off to Geneva instead while Alfred goes to Yemen to scout out the location and figure out how the fishing would work. In the meantime, Patricia Maxwell (Scott-Thomas) tries to find the salmon to fill the lake and rivers in the Yemen.
Everything sort of comes together, even Harriet's soldier boyfriend Robert (Tom Mison) is miraculously alive. But someone is out to kill the Sheikh and destroys the whole new dam, even though the farm grown salmon did manage to swim upstream.
Alfred has nothing to go home to as he wants to divorce his wife and even admits to Robert that he loves Harriet, but she believes he is dead so she needs more time before they can be anything. So he will stay behind the rebuild the dam as a few salmon survived. Harriet decides to be his partner, leaving Robert to return to England alone. They end the film just holding hands. It disappointed me.
Again, the film wasn't great, wasn't funny though it was classified as a comedy at the Golden Globes. Blunt and McGregor deserved better material. Still, it was far from the worst way to spend my time. Grade: B