Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

sorosoria 'The Interview' - film commentaryJust why a reputable company like SONY chose to produce this film is beyond me. Nor can I see why Canadian film development authorities had any part in its production for it is one of the most vulgar films in recent memory. If anything, "The Interview" speaks more about the moral depravity of its producers and the decadent society that would defend such a piece of propagandist vulgarity than it does about its subject, Kim Jong Un, ruler of North Korea. You have to ask yourself what the intent of the producers was. Was it to show the world the moral vacuity that exists in Hollywood? Was it to hasten the ethical decline of a society that is already perceived world-wide as having no moral authority left? If so, it succeeds. Not only is the film filled with references to homosexuality, bestiality, sexual exploitation, it shows just how far American English has deteriorated, especially among the media who ought to be upholding standards in communication, not degrading them. The film is filled with language for which we used to get our mouths washed out. But then this is contemporary America, and you hear vulgarity in TV programs like "Breaking Bad" - degenerate language, illustrative of degenerated minds, symptomatic of a society gone rotten. And members of this society feel themselves superior to those of North Korea? I realize what defenders of this film are likely to argue. They will say they are working within a tradition of satire, the kind practiced by Francois Rabelais; they will claim that the grotesque, the crude, and the bawdy are all part of the fun, part of a clever artistic tradition. Perhaps. But the world at large doesn't understand this. Instead, it will see this film, and other products of American culture, as an expression of the American soul, or what's left of it. And the resulting impression isn't very uplifting or respectable. Defenders of the movie will say Charlie Chaplin did something like it in the satirical film, "The Great Dictator." But I don't buy it. To me "The Interview" is deliberately vulgar and shocking to generate controversy and cash flow. It's all about making money. It's not art. The film's defenders will say they are upholding freedom of speech. What speech? If this is how America has to do to defend its values, there cannot be much left worth defending. For a long time now, American popular entertainment has not been reflective of its cultural best. On the contrary. Hollywood had led the moral decline of a nation that was once emulated. Today the global image of America (spread by Hollywood) is one of unprecedented violence, vulgarity, anti-intelligence, and bad taste, an impression of a mindless, shameless society undergoing economic and moral decline. Perhaps "The Interview" will be remembered for contributing to such impressions. I had expected better of SONY, but perhaps the company has succumbed to the diseased atmosphere of Hollywood.

leethomas-11621 Stuck with it to see how it would turn out, for no other reason. Ultimately it doesn't make sense.

Clifton Johnson This movie gets a bonus star for exceeding my (extremely low) expectations. There were moments when I actually guffawed, but they were pretty rare. Franco cannot manage this part, and the script cannot manage smart satire. The whole thing devolves pretty quickly into a bad action climax. I don't mind satirizing politics while telling dick jokes, but this movie misses the mark that Team America hit 10 years ago.

nabilnahian America and American film industry really want to sell Kim as a bad leader, they portrait him a nuclear holic, drunk, fat, angry racist president. But the irony is, fast forward 4 years their current president is far more worse than Kim. Just imagine if NK, Russia, China or even a Muslim country had made a film about any of the American Terrorist Presidents. USA would suddenly find interest in that country's democracy and invade it.A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME MOVIE