The arrest of Khaled Marei, the director of Ahmed Helmy's latest film “Fantasy of Matta”, on charges of possession of drugs while returning from abroad to Egypt, dealt a new blow to the film, which has suffered from falling revenues since the beginning of a premiere in cinemas during the Eid al-Adha season this month. Despite the strong start.
Since the screening of the film and the work has been criticized in relation to the idea of the film and the weakness of the story and the scenario, as well as criticism of the montage, which some technical analysis that it has hurt the work a lot.
Although some film critics, led by critic Tarek El Shennawy, denied any negative impact of the arrest of Khaled Marei on the film, considering that the film audience goes for the hero of the film and not the director, but they criticized the film in one way or another, causing the Merhi incident to add a new crisis To the crises of the film that caused the film to fall on the box office, third place behind "Awlad Rizk 2" and "Blue Elephant 2", two films have also been criticized, but they were not as much as "fantasy of death" that crises over time.