"The Interview" R
Seth Rogan should not be allowed to be leading man. He over acts. He doesn't know when his third acts lose it and become dark for some reason. This happen in Observe and Report and Pineapple Express, and even somewhat in Zack and Miri and Superbad.
This movie is a riff of the South Park film, Team America, a puppet riff on Fox News and on CNN at the time post Sept. 11. In the new film, Seth and his co star play a news station mogul, and his game show one liner spouting main host.
They are parodies of Donald Trump, Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. This could have worked had it been actually funny. It isn't.
Skylark is a moronic character who has somehow become America's number one entertainment host, but when he is offered the chance to interview Kim Jung Un, the recent son and leader of North Korea, the poo hits the fan.
It seems that the FBI or the CIA want to get rid of the communist leader, so they plot his demise via the producer and his host, going there and somehow offing him. They are unfortunately bungling fools and could not carry out anything let alone an assassination.
What's truly odd though is this is supposed to be a comedy. It is no funny. The two funny scenes revolve around whether or not Kim is a deity who never poops, or if Eminem is gay.
Yeah, that's it. The rest of the movie is the two talk show fools hanging out with Kim in his palace and trying to avoid being pulled into some obvious lies from the communist state.
This film was actually never released due to a Sony hacking by what later turned out to be an ex employee in cohorts with the Koreans, and not the actual angered Koreans. He was just mad he got fired and shut down the movie.
Actually the movie is not worth even seeing, not even of a Riff show.
It is not so much offensive as just plain angry and dumb, and the jokes fall flat in favor of scat humor or of people making fake Asian voices, and going on about how evil it is somewhere.
Their motivations are also insane. Nobody would ask the two fools to do such a thing, and they would have been killed instantly. Yawn.
Review by Anonymous
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