Name: February 30th
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2012-10-24
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Sameh Hussain, Ayten Amer, Lotfy Labib

A nice idea for a story but the execution left a lot to be desired

This is the story of a guy who is ALL bad luck. He touches something, it breaks. Not surprisingly, when the film begins, his girlfriend is breaking up with him, as she is tired of all these accidents. His job as a salesman isn't going well either, as whenever he shows off an apartment, something AWFUL happens. He's been warned...make a sale or lose his job. However, he soon learns a possible solution--find another person with such awful luck and they'll cancel each other out and result in wonderful luck. Well, he has found such a woman and whenever she is near him, he can sell ANYTHING to ANYONE! 

So if this idea is unique, why didn't I like it? The big problem was the broadness of the character as well as the writing. The guy was basically an Egyptian version of Urkel--too geeky to be the least bit believable. Plus if he'd had bad luck it would have been funny. But his luck was ALWAYS bad and the entire film just seemed over the top and lacked subtlety--so much so, that over time the film became tiresome and difficult to stick with or care about--and that is how I found myself after an hour of this tediousness.

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