The Engineer is a 2023 American action film written by Kosta Kondilopoulous, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and starring Emile Hirsch.
Contents
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."