"The Eagles of the Republic" is a Cairo-set political thriller that can be included in the following categories: Films about authoritarian life, which is different from life under a dictatorship (at least for Americans) than six months ago. That's because they're closer to home now. Describing “The Eagle of the Republic” as a “entertainment” suppression legend may sound good, but the central character is a fictional Egyptian movie star, and the film is vivid and entertaining in the first hour or so as it invites us to appreciate his perks and messy names, but he is brought to his vibrant presence.

George Fahmy (fare) is an experienced actor known as the "Pharaoh of the Screen" who carries himself like a legend. He has a tall figure, glittering black eyes and hawkish silhouette. He looks like Liam Neeson, with a hand dog with Harry Dean Stanton melancholy. He is Egypt's first-vote star, and he excels in films ranging from prestige dramas to the movie "The First Egyptian in Space". He would argue with the country’s Muslim Censorship Board (never encountered a movie they couldn’t neutral), and his private life was a privilege to a series of scandals. He occupied a luxurious apartment and had a mistress Donya (Lyne Khoudri), half his age, who looked like a fashion model. (She is an aspiring actor.)

George accepted what he wanted, but it wasn't hard to see for him a sad career. Hidden under his baseball cap and sunglasses, he took a secret trip to the pharmacy to buy Viagra. He is separated from his wife (Donia Massoud) and has a loving but increasingly awkward relationship with his son Ramy (Suhaib Nashwan), who attended an American university in Cairo. (When the two drink and Rami bring the girl he dates, he has to make sure his father doesn't bump into her.) Ticket is a powerful actor who dramatizes George's movie star vanity from the inside out. Then, as he glided over his rightful cloud, he received a call asking him to star in a movie commissioned by the Egyptian government.

This will be a biopic about the country's president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who came to power in 2014 after a military coup. At that time, he overthrew Mohamed Morsi, who became Egypt's first democratic election leader in 2012. (Mosey's rise was driven by protest movements in the Arab Spring.) Still in power, Xixi became a textbook autocracy, presided over the military dictatorship. Under this regime, the "Eagle of the Republic" is a legend of life. We see innocent people arrested for posting "treason" on Facebook, and the character always refers to "they" hovering over everything - them It means regime. They don't get mixed up.

The film's writer-director Tarik Saleh is of Swedish-Egyptian descent and headquartered in Sweden, which is why he was able to prosecute the "Eagle of the Republic" as a life under SISI. It was the last film of Saleh's Cairo Trilogy, whose drug thriller Nile Hilton Isside (2017) and the Muslim civilian corruption drama "The Cairo Conspiracy" (2022) (2022), has been an absorbing story for a while.

When George learns that he was asked to star in a propaganda for a state action, the film will be titled "The Will of the People," he to province. He is not a fan of Egyptian dictatorship - Additionally, how could a star of his appearance and figure be asked to play the short and bald Sisi? However, the fact that he raises these objections in a usual high maintenance manner shows that he is a little naive. SISI regime is not ask George is in the movie; it's telling him. When he reluctantly surrenders to his mission and enters his khaki uniform with medals on it, we can be sure that we will see a fable of what happens when the arrogance of the movie star meets the ruthless buzz of a singular star.

For a while, that was it. AMR Wakek (like a quiet Dennis Farina) plays the man named Dr. Mansour, who is an official, and can make sure everything comes out in a way that Sisi approved. Early on, he told George, “You’re not doing well”, not because he suddenly became a drama critic. George's implementation of Sisy's rise is too exaggerated, too comic--this is because this is how George does not completely give his character. This is his way of resisting.

George was then invited to attend a formal dinner at the home of the Secretary of Defense (Tamim Heikal). There were a group of senior government positions there, who called themselves “the eagles of the Republic,” that is, they were there to investigate and protect the country. But they did protect Sisi and its corruption rules. At this point, George has figured out that he needs to play the game and he knows what to do. But when he meets the minister's mean wife, Sorbonne-educated, Western-facing Suzanne (Zineb Triki), a dangerous bell disappears. He quickly had an affair with her, which seemed like a stupid thing. We think we know the film’s progress in the gut.

But we don't. George was asked to give a speech to further prove his loyalty, and he agreed. The speech takes place in front of Sisi, in a sunny military parade in memory of soldiers fighting Israel during the Atonement (aka Ramadan) war. George made a speech. That's when something happens. Violent spasm. George is among them to oppose Sisy's conspiracy in the form of a semi-friction military coup. He has been used… Somehow.

What we want to know is "to some extent". But this is the movie, to our surprise, completely dispersed. Almost everything that happened after the coup attempt was tilted, confused, messy, scratched. What happened to Saleh’s filmmaking? So far, this is meticulous. Did he leave a bunch of scenes on the uphill floor? In the second half of the movie, we can piece together what happened (one) but not in a completely meaningful way, or simply satisfying. However, the film has been working on a crucial theme: trying to appease the bet of a ruthless regime of power. "The Eagles of the Republic" lost the theme of the story, but even more disappointingly, those bets were unresolved.