200 Pounds

I watched this on a flight, and the story kept me engaged throughout. Maybe because it tells a story from outside my cultural circle, but it was very enjoyable. I am floored by the poor reviews. It was well acted. The story lines, while brief, made sense because of the story telling of the 200 pound note. I felt with the characters' plight. I loved the occasional internal dialogs. Understanding enough about their story to empathize because of how their story is told. I did not feel that the characters were underdeveloped at all. Rather, enough of their story was shared to make me want to understand their fate. All in all, a very enjoyable movie.

I can't understand how the director made it look that bad while having such an amazing cast. I was so excited to see Isaad -for example- after a long time of being away but I was absolutely disappointed. All of the those actors had way way more potential. There is no attention to detail, no character development. I found the most dramatic scenes funny and sometimes illogical and hence meaningless. Not recommended.

This should have been made as a TV series (Period). The idea is ambitious, the characters are fairly interesting, and the production is decent. The main problem is that the movie tries to tell the story of too many characters in a very short period of time (due to the movie runtime limitations). The story feels rushed and the events seem crammed. You don't get enough time to connect with any of the characters which is a huge problem for a movie that is supposedly full of suffering and misery. I started to lose interest towards the end as the formula got too tiring.

I hope that the likes of Netflix/Shahid/OSN pick up the idea and make it into a proper TV series - at least a single 45-min episode per character so we can have enough time to connect.

What a great idea of a movie to show the differences and similarities between different classes.. How the value of one paper can be very different.

It made us laugh, cry and think.

I had higher expectations for this movie but I got bored after watching the first 15 minutes, tried to give another shot but could not continue watching, I recognized I am awaiting my time watching it!!