Movie review for the day

Rico says you know you're not paying attention when you have to look up Brad Pitt as the star of Babel, but there's a lot going on in this interlocking-triple-story movie.
There's the top-level story, with Brad Pitt (photo, right) and Cate Blanchett (photo, left) on vacation in Morocco. Parallel to them, there's the second-level story, with a pair of idiot sons who just have to try out their dad's new high-powered hunting rifle (given to him by a Japanese guy, but we'll get to that later), and end up shooting (just because it's far away) a tour bus, wounding Blanchett in the process:

Back home, their two kids have been left in the care of their Mexican housekeeper, who decides to go into Mexico to attend the wedding of her son. On the way home, however, things go bad and, rather than go to jail for driving drunk, her nephew makes a run for it from the Border Patrol (a bad idea), and puts her and the kids out in the desert in the middle of the night:

After taking forever to get to the point, there's the parallel story of the 'please-fuck-me-I'm-so-horny' teenage Japanese girl:

whose father turns out to have been the hunter who, while on safari in Morocco, gave his rifle to the dumb local guide with the even-dumber sons (one of whom gets whacked in a shootout with the Moroccan police):

All in all, far more confusing than necessary, but well done, even if the ending was wrapped up quickly...