The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.
Journey to Mecca has generally received positive reviews.
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Journey to Mecca was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 13 reviews, giving Journey to Mecca (2009) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 55%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Journey to Mecca a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 65%, Journey to Mecca is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Law Abiding Citizen, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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