The Engineer (film)
The Engineer is a 2023 American action film written by Kosta Kondilopoulous, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and starring Emile Hirsch.
Plot
The film follows the biggest manhunt in the history of Israel to find Yahya Ayyash, the chief bombmaker of Hamas who oversaw a series of Palestinian suicide attacks in Israel in the middle of the 1990s.Cast
- Emile Hirsch as Etan
- Angel Bonanni as Avi
- Danny A. Abeckaser as Yakov
- Tzachi Halevy as Gili
- Oshri Cohen
- Dan Mor as Tamas
- Omer Hazan as Levi
- Stefani Yunger
- Kyle Stefanski as Henry
- Yarden Toussia-Cohen as Fanni
- Adam Haloon as The Engineer
- Lee Keinan as Al-Soowi
- Robert Davi as Senator David Adler
Production
Hirsch's official casting as the lead was announced in June 2022.Release
The film was released on August 18, 2023.Reception
The film has no rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on four reviews.Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "...feels very much like an American B-movie stab at turning Israeli anti-terrorist operations of 30 years ago into formulaic action fodder — without much action, even."