Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- tense
- heightened
- melodramatic
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What sets it apart
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Ahmed Ezz portrays both Faris and Nabil, making their opposed lives and eventual encounter the film's defining narrative mechanism.
Faris grows up in a police household while Nabil is raised in poverty and enters the drug trade.
Faris attempts to dismantle a dangerous drug cartel while Nabil is ordered to obstruct him.
The brothers' distinct paths through policing, addiction, poverty, and criminal coercion collide during the cartel crackdown.
Films like Badal Faqed, and why
Dead Ringers
shared identical-twin premise, crime melodrama, and action-thriller structure
The Man in the Iron Mask
shared mistaken-identity tension, family separation, and melodramatic crime plotting
Face/Off
shared dual-identity action, criminal conspiracies, and heightened dramatic tone
Movie Details
- Director
- Ahmad Alaa Aldeeb
- Release Date
- 2009-06-03
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (20)
Cast
- Ahmed Ezz
- Menna Shalabi
- Mohammad Lotfi
- Ahmed Fouad Selim
- Rasha Mahdi
- Sawsan Badr
- Ali Hassanein
- Aaidah Riyadh
- Ahmed El Awadi
- Bayoumi Fouad
Common questions
- What is Badal Faqed about?
- Separated identical twins raised on opposite sides of Egyptian society collide when a policeman's cartel investigation forces one brother to hunt the other.
- What is Badal Faqed like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Badal Faqed as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Badal Faqed violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Badal Faqed as moderate.
- Which films are like Badal Faqed?
- Films with a similar feel include Dead Ringers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and Face/Off.
- How long is Badal Faqed?
- Badal Faqed runs 107 minutes.
