The Master Plan is an Arabic-language comedy film about two blind individuals hired to perform a slick heist by a corrupt manager. It is directed by Moataz El Tony and written by Karim Samy, Ahmed Abd El Wahab, and Ahmed Abdel Wahab. Moreover, it stars Ali Rabee and Mohamed Abdel Rahman in titular roles.
The complete cast of the film includes Ghada Adel, Yasmin, Amr Abdul Gelil, Salah Abdallah, Bayoumi Fouad, Mr Nashaat, Yasser El Tobgy, Zaki, Soliman Eid, Mohamed Farouk, and Eman Salem. Furthermore, Mahmoud Sabry serves as the editor of this one-hour-and-thirty-minute-long flick.
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If you have, by any chance, seen Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s thriller drama movie Aankhen (2002), starring Akshay Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan, then perhaps you should already know everything about this comically curated heist flick. And for the unversed, the plot of the movie starts with two blind con artists, Hamzoun and Allalah (played by Ali Rabee and Mohamed Abdel Rehman respectively), indulging in small-scale thugs and tricks.
One day, a promotion-hungry bank manager, decides to recruit both the lads as part of his elaborate scheme to loot the bank and climb the ladder of success through sly means. Even though there is a minute emphasis on the exact reason for conducting the heist, one can easily conclude that the manager is more concerned with the vital documents than a load of money.
In this process, he also blackmails Yasmin (played by Ghada Adel), by kidnapping his blind child and forcing her to train the thugs. Again, this particular sequence particularly feels fast-forwarded, and acts like another rushing part, to desperately arrive at the main point.
What follows next, is a series of events that hardly make much sense, but do make up for a fun and light (maybe even lighter) watch. In fact, the film is miraculously held together by the leading duo of Ali Rabee and Mohamed Abdel Rahma, who make sure to land all the punches in the movie, without fail. Notably, the gas station scene really had me laughing out loud, and to some extent, compensated for the average array of events.
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The humour in the film simply works like a radio commentary during a night drive, which prevents you from falling asleep. The rest of the act, including the screenplay and training montages, are so basic and involuntary, that it’s in everyone’s best interest to enjoy the laidback entertainment alone.
The events of The Master Plan are mostly alike to Aankhen, with the exception of a third blind character, and the total elimination of the serious element. Moreover, the flick is entirely focused (and also rescued) by the mainstay comedy, which turns out to be the USP of the whole thing. Plus, it breaks into a dance number after the climax for no particular reason, which is a truly Bollywood-inspired thing to do.
The Master Plan Final Thoughts
If you love skillfully executed jokes that land perfectly, then you might add The Master Plan to your binge list. There are some scenes that make the feature worthwhile, or at least tolerable for a one-time watch. Other than that, there is simply no reason to indulge in a rapid and vacant heist.
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