ashraf2103 First before writing my review, I want to mention that I have not watched Egyptian movies since 4 years, and I watched this movie only after I have been advised by others that this movie is in a level of famous Oscar Movies, accordingly I watched it with some earlier impressions, so if you have such impressions my advice would be not to watch it as you are going to be disappointed specially both actors have way better movies as "wahed men el nas" and "Yaokobian building", but if you don't have such level of expectations then I would advise you watch it as it is somehow interesting movie in case you have nothing else to watch, second regarding my review if I would give points for different elements in the Movie I would give 10/10 for Karim, and Khaled, but 5/10 for Nelly as she was not convincing at all, for the sound track I would give 6/10 as the sound level is not jumping from low to very high, may be they wanted to give the suspense effect but the variation from normal to high was very too much, for the cinematography I would give 7/10 because most of the scenes are dark or poor lighting, indeed it is a horror movie but who said that horror movies must be that poor lighting, I still remember the movie "The Others" where most of its scenes were done on candle light but still the scenes were clearer, now for the story, I understood from the Wikipedia that this movie is based on a best selling novel, honestly I have not read the novel itself and I know many times when you convert a novel to a movie it looses a lot from its flavor because of course of the time limit, but the story of the movie was not convincing at all, it opens a lot of unanswered questions: 1- How some sort of heavy drugs which should cause hallucinations can make someone see incidents happened in the past as if he is traveling in time? And how he (Karim) considered himself that he has really seen incidents in the past and at the same moment he has a book with all these incidents written in it? The logical answer that these incidents are part of his unconscious once he read the book and he just retrieve them when had the tablets not that he traveled somehow to the past. 2-The movie didn't answer where Karim has disappeared for 5 years? 3- How he had the same thesis on his Ph.D. as Khaled and they didn't meet at all specially it is not a very common subject for Ph.D.? 4- How Nelly got divorced easily at the end of the movie although she didn't love her husband from day one? These are only example of the questions which you would find

Mohamed Ehab The Blue Elephant..It Might Be A Slow Huge elephant But you will wondered how it could Be smash your brain in 180 round of minutes of magical fiction world into pieces..i adore this hilarious sneaky elephant starts without script writer the genius one "ahmed mourad" and how to move this novel into the big screen and going on with the perfect acting performance of Karim Abd El Aziz And Khaled El Sawi it was a clash between two giant monsters every one of the trying to doing his best performance ever especially with Karim Abd El Aziz (Dr.yahia Rashed) Because of his role was very deep emotionally More than khaled el sawi (Shereif El Kordy) because it's very difficult to act a internal deep emotion on the screen on the contrary of khaled el sawi his emotion is difficult but external one and this not decreased this role because it's one of best psychological performance ever on Egyptian screen ever. Nelly Karim (Lobna El Kordy) Was Not Bad Choice She's got the look and experiences to deliver this role of lover and wife in a different way Dareen Hadad (Maya) we Excepting More Scenes because she's a promise good actress. but the film got some fundamental Issues :- 1- It's not 100 % percent Loyal to the novel and there's a lot of Important scene had delayed or cancelled a cause of time management. 2-the story line has been changed from Basic Preservative From Psychological Line To Multi-relationships of yehia rashad starts with wife goes to girlfriend and old ex love 3-there's a lot of scene in the end of the story became not logic to the watcher that Not Read the novel 4-it's needs to expanding movie time to 3 hours to be loyal to the novel. 5-Sound effects and ost credits goes to the saint masterpiece Hisham nazih the Egyptian zimmer it's a magnificent one every single detail had his appreciation and effort really sound got the full mark 10/10 6-videography and visual effects was a new trip to us in Egypt i don't realize that i'm watching Egyptian movie Really it's the best Egyptian visual movie ever ,Ahmed el Morsy Ceo Of Videography was elegant and unique in a lot of scenes of horror. last thing it was a very good experiences and i hope that it will be a huge push to cinema to the next level rated of 8/10 wahba 8 of august 2014

mmjnr10 This is one of rare times I attempt to a write a reviews on IMDb .I consider myself an extremely demanding customer (Movie Watcher) born and raised on some classic American as well as Egyptian classics. Great movies of all times from The God Father all the way to Lord of the Rings and The Matrix!! This movie has something very special and I reckon sooner or later America will adopt that same story based on the best-selling novel by Ahmed Mourad (Al Feel Al Azrak) translated into English as The Blue Elephant and most people who are about to watch this explosive roller coaster are in for a real treat as the movie is head casted by Egypt's and the ME arguably most popular and charismatic star of his generation Kareem Abd Al Aziz and Directed by the genius Marwan Hamid who almost 10 years back had his directorial debut directing the all time Egyptian classic The Yacoubian Building rated 9.3 on IMDb just a year back. The Blue Elephant is a tense physcological thriller with intense horror that will take you to places never thought possible on the Egyptian screen thanks to an exceptionally good story line based on the best selling novel (The Blue Elephant) which made a huge stir in the market when it was released and now enter the movie that thankfully does the book justice. The movie is backed by an excellent script and presented very smartly by Marwan Hamid yet the massive surprise lies in the finale which turns the movie into a different genre all together!! All in all this is a must watch movie for any nationality and one that compliments the all time legendary Egyptian cinematography which not many outside the Arab world are too familiar with yet this movie brings back Egyptian cinema with its long history to its true size, a history that goes back to the 1800s yet the West and America never managed to understand nor appreciate Egypt and why it is popularly dubbed (Hollywood of The Middle East) as Egypt is by far the Arab World main Cinema venue, in addition to Music, literature as well as being the Media Hub appreciated and idolized by millions upon millions in the Middle East and some parts of Asia including Iran. Those who have grown up watching Egyptian movies and TV series's and even replicating Egypt's Arabic dialect which is commonly praised as the most popular form of Arabic in the Arab World yet with all that history and legends the West came only to know Omar Sheriff and lately Amr Wakid which features alongside Scarlett Johansson in her recent flick (Lucy)

Ahmed AL Shamandy Ahmed Mourad's The Blue Elephant novel has been a hit in Egypt and Arab world with a huge amount of controversy among readers from all levels of knowledge, culture and interest. Swinging between the spread success and all the criticism it faced due to the massive attraction of many readers, It managed to be always on headlines between people and of course at every book store and now it made it through to the big screen.Marwan Hamed, one of Egypt finest directors made good choices of the actors and the settings of the scenes. The shooting seemed nice and smooth in most scenes, a bit fair and out of balance in few but mainly it went mostly good.All actors Kareem, Nelly and the others were mostly on form giving their good performance except of Khaled El Sawy whose performance was exceptional.The characters on screen appeared close to the author description in shape and behavior. The stylist must have studied and understood the characters well enough to apply that with such a success on their looks.Until then the movie was going to be just Good, But it needed a sparkle to make it a Great movie according to the standards of Egyptian and Arab cinema production and driving it a step forward to the International standards.The sparkle came from VFX team with the DOP who both did a great job reflecting Mourad's toughest scenes of the novel into a visual reality with professional touches by Hamed.Some side notes about the dialogue, shooting and supporting characters cannot ruin the good work has been done by all the crew.I have always had a big objection about the story ending, but for now I may leave that to myself and enjoy watching an Egyptian cinema production with such professionalism and high standards. it's not perfect - like anything will never be - yet it's a big step forward that we should applaud and keep our Self-flagellation on Pause!