The plot follows two men in their forties and friends since college who take a business trip to the Philippines.
Andy introduces them to Kozen, a Zen Buddhist monk, and they decide to build a refuge on an isolated beach.
Club called the film "Little more than The Beach for the mortgage-and-carpool crowd," and said it "starts strong only to become an escapist fantasy for overaged Maxim readers.
"[2] Rabin noted the threesome scene between the three leads is "an excruciating [one] that suggests a Playboy video recast with veteran character actors.
The movie never really recovers, as the quest for spiritual salvation mutates into an extremely ordinary battle of the sexes.