The Engineer

Supposed true tale "The Engineer" shoulda been topical & interesting, but its production standards (under director Danny A Abeckaser), writing (Kosta Kondilopoulos) & acting are SO bad it fails completely. In 1995 Yahya Ayyash (Adam Haloon) masterminded horrific Hamas terrorist bombings across Israel - so was hunted in Gaza by Shin Bet agents (led by Emile Hirsch (of the tanked career)) and an ex-Mossad hit squad (led by Angel Bonanni - funded by US Sentaor Robert Davi who wants to personlly kill Ayyash to avenge his daughter who died in the attacks (true story huh?)). This cheap, pitiful tosh is certainly NOT another "Zero Dark Thirty".

Watching a complete mess of a movie , felt like i watched some kids with a handheld camera shooting a movie. This is the absolute pinnacle of bad story, bad dialogue, bad editing, bad plot.. I mean, I'm saying 'bad' like there actually is any of these elements within the film. The editing makes no sense, it seems randomly cut with continuity errors. This movie is just incredible that it was made, I didn't think it was possible to make a film so bad. It's like it's a new genre, just a bad movie. Sub plots get brought up out of no where in this movie and never get brought up again. Characters get brought up and again never mentioned. The script, story, characters, editing, setting, everything was just wrong with this movie.

This doesn't have the script, direction or acting quality of "Fauda". It's very slow in the beginning and bogs down at times. They should have used Hebrew and Arabic throughout with English subtitles instead of jumping between three languages. It improves toward the end. The insertion of "family drama" turns this from an interesting story to another boring American type police/family drama. I don't care about their family relationships, I turned in to watch a Shin Bet/Sabak operation to find a bomber. There is a reason that Fauda is popular in many countries including Arab ones, it has quality.

This pulse-pounding action-thriller is based on true events, about the hunt for the most notorious Palestinian bomb-builder of the mid-90s, the cunning killer nicknamed "The Engineer." He was the guy who built the vest-bombs that Hamas suicide-bombers wore onto buses and into Israel's public places, I actually remember experiencing these horrors as a kid. It was made pretty good with fine actors. Action and drama were definitely provided. If you liked "Fauda" and "Homeland" you should watch this too. The middle east provides Israel with action on a daily basis, this is a pretty good taste of our everyday reality.

A very interesting film about the hunt for 'the engineer', the notorious Palestinian bomb maker Yahya Ayash. The fast-paced film follows the Shin Bet's hunt and targeted killing of the notorious Palestinian bomb maker Yahya Ayash ("The Engineer"). Skillfully interweaving documentary-style archival footage of key traumatic and heartbreaking events from 1993-1996, the film recreates the suicide bus bombings using live broadcasts combined with the latest filmmaking technology. The film tells the story of hunting down that terrorist mastermind through the eyes of Shin Bet agents, including the super-secret Mistaarvim unit that infiltrated Gaza in a high-risk effort to track down Ayash. All in all, a great movie. Highly recommended.

You have to go and watch this amazing movie. So impressive So important 🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝 This is a TRUE story and such an important story for the world to know what happened in Israel At the 90's Go and watch this! This is the movie that going to make you understand how terrible is the reality of living in fear with all the terrible terror attacks that Israeli people have been through in the 90's and in the beginning of the 2000. The cast is so go, such an incredible actors and story line. Must see. And please don't forget to share your thoughts and reviews on this movie. This is the movie that going to make you understand how terrible is the reality of living in fear with all the terrible terror attacks that Israeli people have been through in the 90's and in the beginning of the 2000. The cast is so go, such an incredible actors and story line. Must see. And please don't forget to share your thoughts and reviews on this movie.

After just finished watching pretty much the exact same filmmakers and cast in the Inside Man that was very impressive for an indie production, this film does a 180 and was shockingly a huge mess. I'm a fan of "based on true events" films, especially when they are filmed effectively like Inside Man which was done right for an indie B-film, but sadly this wasn't one of those. The entire normally comfortable 92 min runtime dragged on and on endlessly, with horrible pacing, lackluster direction that made even the few action scenes boring, and a story that was choppy and convoluted. It's hard to believe it was the same writers and directors that made both films, as they are night and day. It's too bad, this had promise, but it just failed to deliver the goods.

I know this is a made for streaming kind of film and low budget, but still.. this was sold as an action movie so why is it so boring? The action they do have in it is riddled with jump cuts and shaking camera movements so you can hardly tell what is going on. I know, they do that because this is a low budget film and they have to hide the action because it will look bad if we can actually see a whole body moving at once. Usually you can overlook the lack of action if the plot is good but it is choppy and random. Almost like they wrote the dialogue on set. I'm guessing this was made during the writer's strike.