Hajwala: The Missing Engine (2016) User Reviews

Drifting in the desert. Yeah great, but that was all there was here...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 18 June 2018]

I think I found this movie somewhere in a remote and dusty corner of the Netflix vault, and opted to give it a chance, solely because I hadn't seen any movies from the United Arab Emirates.

Right, well I managed to endure about 25 minutes of this movie before I gave up out of sheer boredom. Yep, it was exactly that boring.

The characters in the movie were indistinguishable from one another, and I don't even recall who was who. Every character was essentially one and the same because they had no distinctive personalities or traits.

The storyline and plot was almost non-existing, and it wasn't much fun watching some middle eastern people just trying to make their vehicles drift along a small section of road.

Honestly, there just simply was no point to this movie.

I have no interest in returning to finishing watching "Hajwala", not even if I was paid to do so. This is definitely one of the most boring movies that I have stumbled upon in a long time.

Bad movie

[azizryder · 1/10 · 2 April 2019]

I really don't like it ! Performance of actors is so bad

Cannot give 0 stars

[rossorosso-95652 · 1/10 · 21 February 2021]

Bad acting and awful story, most of the time you don't know what's going on.

2 Hours of my life wasted for this garbage movie, i wish i could give 0 stars.

This gives UAE a bad name and image.

[hadad-77278 · 1/10 · 28 November 2018]

Abeer is the only person who can act, and some funny guy at the beginning, moaning and sleeping on the back of his truck.

Who even signed this movie off and said it was acceptable?!?!..

This movie gives UAE a disappointing image which is sad and not true.

Either do it properly or go home! You all need to get educated and stop chasing acting dreams...

Enjoyment disappeared

[marcelocabus · 1/10 · 27 April 2020]

I had the feeling that 2h of my life is lost. The movie is so bad that it forced me to write a review. The acting is embarrassing, and it is probably the first time some are being "professionally" recorded. Make-up and effects are a joke, changing dramatically between each scene - there is little to none consideration or review. There is no story, just random friends smoking cigarettes and claiming to have fast cars. It has nothing to do with excitement or action. On a second note, the subtitles offered are out of sync and filled with grammatical errors.

B movie

[gmcenterline · 2/10 · 28 October 2018]

Watched this movie in Netflix and was totally disappointed. The movie description said the protagonist was "developing a vehicle with an innovative engine". I didn't know that innovative was Arabic for stolen. I waited the whole movie for the story to turn around, but it didn't. Just a lesson on how not to live your life.

If you like movies about drifting, then you find a few scenes that are interesting from an UAE perspective.

I thought I was watching a soap opera. Very much discredit to the car owners. Definitely Paid not self made . No respect for these clowns

[wfcallanan · 1/10 · 15 July 2018]

I thought I was watching a soap opera. Very much discredit to the car owners. Definitely Paid not self made . No respect for these clowns

Umm. Do not watch

[timwiltshire-65652 · 1/10 · 11 June 2021]

Acting is horrible, the storyline is confusing and hard to follow. Waste of time do not watch this movie.

The worst movie ever

[yesuae · 1/10 · 27 October 2021]

The worst movie ever

Damn those who brought you together to make this movie..Oh, its scandal. You made foreigners take a bad idea about our ability in cinematographic production..on what basis did you put two directors and two scripts, and the foreign series that made 500 episodes see that there is one director and one screenplay..what are you proud of? !! .. The voice on one side, the movements of the lips on the other, and the physical effects of acting are zero.. Every person is dressed and has a beard and a dagger to tell his girlfriend what do you think of me, am I beautiful.. I found someone in the investigation police who put a ship over his head.. The story is not understandable and not interesting. The voice is not clear.. I continued the translation even though I am an Arab.. There are no plots in the story.. If I were you, producer, I would not post it on Netflix.. I hope you forget about acting and work on changing tires for better.. Really, I wasted my life in Watch this movie.

Worse than expected!

[natea_teodor · 1/10 · 27 September 2021]

From the first minutes I noticed how boring and dull this movie is. But I still gave it a chance! I managed to watch it entirely!

Big mistake, I just wasted almost 2 hours of my life for the most boring car movie ever! And don't get me wrong, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE cars! But this movie has absolutely zero sense, it just switches scenes with zero storyline. Cars are beautiful, but actors have zero life in them. You don't understand who is who, what is he doing and how they can take so many stupid decisions! Also I noticed they have a second movie released in 2018! I mean.... how were they able to create a second movie? The first one was a complete disaster!

I cannot fathom the words...

[beauraybo · 10/10 · 14 January 2020]

... I only associate one word with this film. Masterpiece