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ashcoral
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Welad el-Amm (2009)
So bad it good (almost!).
18 February 2022 - 4 out of 21 users found this review helpful.
I wasn't quite sure if I was watching a comedy or a drama.
The hilarious soft-focus opening of the wife with her husband on a boat idyllically waxing lyrical about the beauty of Egypt before being kidnapped and waking up - horror of horrors in TEL AVIV!!!!! And we know it's Israel by the camera zoom on the Israeli flag with dramatic music in tow.
When her husband placed a Kippah on his head, he turned into the ultimate baddie. The prospect of her son undergoing a Bar Mitzvah was the final degradation!
I have to admit to skipping many of the scenes, they were too awful to actually watch. The denouement the fight between good (Egyptian) and evil (Israeli) came straight out of the stable of Mel Brooks or a 1920's melodrama.
Beyond awful!
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