An average movie

Back in 2014, this movie made some major waves because it was making fun of North Korea and especially of its leader, Kim Jong-un. In fact, the whole thing got so out of hand that there were some threats and even some hacking going on against Sony and, as a result, they even postponed releasing the movie for a while. Basically, it was a huge mess and, after all these years, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I think the concept of a moronic US TV personality interviewing the most infamous dictator in the world was pretty wild but it actually had some potential. And, indeed, the first part worked really well and was actually quite entertaining. Unfortunately, to get these guys involved in some assassination plan orchestrated by the CIA was such a misguided idea though and it pretty much completely derailed the whole thing, I’m afraid. It’s too bad because the interview itself seemed really surreal but, actually, not completely impossible. On top of that, to see Kim Jong-un completely manipulating Dave Skylark was just so intriguing and, again, actually fairly believable, and it would have been so interesting if they had continued in this direction. Unfortunately, it seems that the makers wanted to make sure that nobody could take the damned thing seriously and the best way to achieve this goal was to add this completely half-assed CIA plan. Seriously, even though it was supposed to be funny, it was just stupid and barely entertaining. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it still think it was bold to make a comedy about an actual dictactor who happens to be still alive and kicking and, only therefore, I think the damned thing is actually worth a look.