Omar w Salma review

I really wanted to see that movie, and just because I like the actress Mai Ezzedine. But unfortunately I wasn’t disappointed to this extent ever since “Little Man”. And just to be cautious, if you really like Mai...do NOT go watch the movie because you’ll leave the theatre hating her guts. This is not as much of a professional review as much as it's a rant on my frustration of this movie...

The movie is hugely based on cheap laughs, because it’s known that if you give whatever sorts of sexual hints (and believe me, they weren’t hinted at all – just total bluntness) you’ll get your nice little audience to laugh. The times where actors still act macho and personify themselves as sex gods are way, way over. It seems that Mr. Hosni (who happened to write the story for the movie) thought it should always be his way in if he pulls an Ahmad Al Sa’a stunt on us. Unfortunately, he didn’t realise the fact that it didn’t work for his colleague so why would it work for him? Please button your shirt up and spare us your college kid jokes.

What you’ll greatly notice, this is if you actually give a damn to look into the movie from a different perspective that, the movie is massively packed with disgusting women objectification. It didn’t surprise me, yet I was surprised on how to this age people still accept it in full. Most women recruited on the movie either got their buttocks stared at and filling the movie screen, got their breasts “highlighted” or been a victim of Hosni’s random pseudo-pinch of flirtation.

Some people might ask why it is a big deal, and it’s ‘just a movie’. But seriously, the Arabic media is sure giving women their space at this age and time yet 80% of such representations are either for sexual fantasies or to portray a perfectly good housewife who gets roses when she cooks a good soup. And such movies do plant some sort of twisted perspectives. What do you expect young men to think after seeing hot chicks getting slapped, beaten up, been stared at with wetting or biting lips? “Let’s go do the same and we’ll be as-cool!”

And come to think about it, do you really want to see a movie about a rich kid who always gets what he needs, been raised by his pimp father, have problems with having a garment on, a girl he loved who gets to fame, ditches him, gives autographs, turns out she’s being ‘abused’ by her director, another new victim of his who wears boots in mid day summertime, falls in love with the rich brat because of his perfume, gets slapped and simply jumps back into the car, get married and yay happily ever after in the end?

Rating: 0.5/10

What a waste of my 6 JD’s! I could’ve bought almost 6 packs of Orange juice and at least get some sort of vitamin C instead of this useless crap.