Week Twenty Film: The Dictator (Dir. Larry Charles) 2012
The Dictator is a British-American black comedy film directed by Larry Charles. The film was produced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Anthony Hines, David Mandel, Scott Rudin, Jeff Schaffer & Todd Schulman. The film was written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel & Jeff Schaffer. It stars Sacha Baron Cohen (Admiral General Aladeen/Alison Burgers & his double Efawadh), Anna Faris (Zoey), Ben Kingsley (Tamir) & Jason Mantzoukas ("Nuclear" Nadal). The Dictator received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 57%, based on 209 reviews, with the critical reading, "Wildly uneven but consistently provocative, The Dictator is a decent entry in the poli-slapstick comedy genre." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 58 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of a possible four, saying, "The Dictator is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on. Having seen Sacha Baron Cohen promoting it on countless talk shows, I feared the movie would feel like déjà vu. But no. He establishes a claim to be the best comic filmmaker now working. And in a speech about dictatorships, he practices merciless political satire."
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