| The story is very entertaining from start to finish and invokes an atmosphere I have enjoyed in films like Bowfinger and The Disaster Artist without actually being anything like either films | Set in 2010, it would have been a tall order recreating that time and place in a country with little infrastructure and expertise to pull that off, but the filmmakers managed to do that on a budget that must have been modest, and used the limitations to double down on the DIY atmosphere of a high school kids with talent and passion trying to make a movie in an atmosphere that was anything but supportive |
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| The filmmakers smartly imploys music, animations, outdoors shoots, and camera flourishes in service of telling a really good story |
The supporting team lead by Sohayb Godus, Ahmad Sadam, and especially Ismail Alhassan truly deliver on the comedy in a big.
23| It is one of the rare times that I don't have to qualify my enjoyment by saying it's a good enough for a Saudi film, and instead I think it's a film that could stand on its own merits and represent us everywhere and not be graded on a curve, which might be the highest praise I can grant the film | There is a high level of situational comedy, and the cast who consists of mainly unprofessional and unseasoned young actors really delovered on the jokes |
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| Here is a film that was truly made for the local sensibility and very true to that, yet I believe would be a smashing success has it been given the chance to play internationally | Not only the film is great, even the film within a film is the kind of shlock horror films I would totally watch and enjoy |
That said, it still is a very impressive effort considering it's the debut feature film of Godus Brothers.
14| If I have to say where it could have been improved, I would say the plot is predictable and the film would have been better off cut to 100 to 105 min instead of 2 hours | In 2010, high school senior Husam, his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and their teacher Orabi set out to produce a no-budget horror movie |
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| The filmmaking is very well done, and the camera shots are smart and dynamic without being flashy | In 2010, high school senior Husam, his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and their teacher Orabi set out to produce a no-budget horror movie |
Baraa Alem, playing Hosam the aspiring filmmaker, is very good in delivering a wide range of emotions between the drama and the comdey.