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Before I begin, I have to say that I am a huge of fan of the director. I find his work, not just different but intriguing as well, especially Annihilation. He doesn't just give you a story to watch but an entire world to observe, and this is exactly what we see in this film.

When you watch this film, you can really feel how things are wrong in this world, and how journalism is one of the most important jobs in such world to bring out the truth for everyone to see.

From the opening scene of the film and I couldn't help but relate this world and its people with the genocide that's happening in Gaza right now. Other than the white interpretation, I saw Lee as Shereen Abu Akleh (The leading Palestinian journalist, who was killed covering the attack on the Jenin camp), I saw Jessie as all the young journalists in Gaza right now covering the death and the destruction of their city.

It's funny how a film about a dystopian world where nothing feels right, mirrors the reality with what's happening in Gaza right now. It's also funny how we're allowed to sympathize with the main cast of the film but when it comes to the real world, we can't do that.

All in all, this is a great film in all its aspects that deserves to be seen and reflect how we feel watching it to the real world with support to such heroes.

Pray for Gaza and Free Palestine.

The film is just like the first part. The same 3 disconnected stories that are supposed to tie up at the end with the same cliches and historical references.

First we begin with the story, written in the poorest way possible. The film cuts between the 3 stories way too quickly, you never get invested in any of them, you do not connect with the characters or feel anything towards them, you always end up checking your phone.

Secondly, the acting. Every actor / actress in the film is over acting (and that's the least to say about it) even big and talented names like Hend Sabry. Other performances are just terrible. The only descent performances are Mohamed Saad's just like the first part and Mohamed Ramadan's.

Thirdly, to be honest the production set is amazing. The scenes in Cairo's Mamluk and Ancient Egypt are amazing. But this shows an important thing, if the film only relies on big names with minimum acting skills, big production sets without a decent plot, the result will always be mediocre at best.

I really hope we start shifting from just having big names and cool action sequences to only make a film.

The last film I saw that was directed by Marwan Hamed and also written by Ahmed Mourad was the "The Blue Elephant 2", and I said that it was a good cinema experience with at least a decent story that can make me watch it on TV when it's on. However, Kira and El-Gin even lacks the decent story.

I am not going to talk about the graphics, the cinematography or the music score. All these things are amazing and probably the best in Egyptian cinema history. But, even if these aspects are wonderful and the story is bad, the film will be bad.

The story of Kira and El-Gen is horribly written. There supposed to be some "bromance" between the two lead characters but no matter how hard they try to force it down my throat I still can not swallow it. They barely have scenes together in the film and suddenly I am supposed to just imagine that El-Gen is the only one who can help Kira mentally when things go wrong in his life.

Outside the false "Bromance" that was given to us. The story mainly talks about the resistance against the British Occupation of Egypt during and after 1919 revolution. But the resistance wasn't only seven people, the lead group of the film. Not every crime committed by the occupation was related to them or every act of resistance in Egypt was done by them.

There's no main plot in this film. If you think it was fighting the occupation it's not, there is no story there, just some action sequences of blowing up camps and car chases in the old streets of Cairo, but why is that happening or how will this help fighting the occupation, you don't get these points, just random acts of patriotism.

If I wanted to see explosions, good CGI and minimum effort in the stroy that is supposed be cool, I would probably go for a Zack Snyder film. Because that was what Kira and El-Gen aspires to be and fails. Nearly 3 hours of a plot-less film just some talking between action sequences.

This film is huge set back on Marwan Hamed's filmography and clear indication that Ahmed Mourad cannot be a film writer on his own.