“A Hologram For The King” (** out of four) was a sporadically amusing comedy about a failed American businessman (Tom Hanks) who looks to recoup his losses by travelling to Saudi Arabia and selling his ideas to a wealthy monarch and is a fish out of water. Hanks’ likeability carries this about as far as it can go but this one-joke idea is stretched well beyond its limit at nearly two hours. Hanks played a similar character in the much funnier “Charlie Wilson’s War” and a much sharper and more complex version of a similar story was told in Lasse Halstrom’s “Salmon Fishing In The Yemen.”