The movie is based on a best seller thriller fiction published in Egypt carrying the same name "The Blue Elephant" written by a writer who s pioneering thriller fiction in Egypt last 5 years with 3 Best sellers in a row "Ahmed Mourad" Marwan Hamed "the Director" made another successful movie based on another best seller book 7 years ago "Yaqoubian Building" That is why, there is excess of hype and teaser Marketing prior the show
Directing style came across in a classy way with good visuals reflecting dark atmosphere of events. Yet slow motion, close shots and sound track climax was abused/over used across the movie
Spoiler/ Story/ Script: Although story is very entertaining while reading because of unique writing style , smart choice of topic and good research of facts, It still lacks of building strong plot
The main character of the movie "Dr Yahya, the psychiatrist" is deciphering the truth that the real killer is a devil who haunted the body of his X-colleague by taking hallucination pills of DMT!! What is the link? How come? Why?...No clear answers. Although storyline built good climax of complexity, Twist and solution of the problem came too simple ...It was all about black magic and spell got through the body of the wife via a tattoo !! ...That is it?
The writer has unique descriptive writing style that got missed by nature when Novel is transferred to screenplay , so viewer will be left with events, dialog and plot which is the weakest element story
Cinemagraphy: Was very colorful and excellent except in abusing the slow motion and close shots techniques
Actors Performance: Khaled El Sawi is a legend. Karim AbdelAziz is good but Nelly Karim performance is too flat. She was totally out of orientation
Music is great and fits with mysterious / magical oriental context
It is nice movie that shapes new genre of mystery/thriller movies in Egyptian cinema but it is far from being classic
Directing style came across in a classy way with good visuals reflecting dark atmosphere of events. Yet slow motion, close shots and sound track climax was abused/over used across the movie
Spoiler/ Story/ Script: Although story is very entertaining while reading because of unique writing style , smart choice of topic and good research of facts, It still lacks of building strong plot
The main character of the movie "Dr Yahya, the psychiatrist" is deciphering the truth that the real killer is a devil who haunted the body of his X-colleague by taking hallucination pills of DMT!! What is the link? How come? Why?...No clear answers. Although storyline built good climax of complexity, Twist and solution of the problem came too simple ...It was all about black magic and spell got through the body of the wife via a tattoo !! ...That is it?
The writer has unique descriptive writing style that got missed by nature when Novel is transferred to screenplay , so viewer will be left with events, dialog and plot which is the weakest element story
Cinemagraphy: Was very colorful and excellent except in abusing the slow motion and close shots techniques
Actors Performance: Khaled El Sawi is a legend. Karim AbdelAziz is good but Nelly Karim performance is too flat. She was totally out of orientation
Music is great and fits with mysterious / magical oriental context
It is nice movie that shapes new genre of mystery/thriller movies in Egyptian cinema but it is far from being classic