The Interview
Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show Skylark Tonight. When they discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.
17 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 November 1973, Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
12 April 1959, Tehran, Iran
15 April 1982, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
12 June 1978, Readfield, Maine, USA
20 February 1974, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
17 January 1967, Gim-hae, South Gyeongsang Povince, South Korea
September 26, 2016
Even the film's most ardent champions would likely concede that The Interview is a spectacularly weird film to end up at the center of a free speech brouhaha.
January 09, 2015
The Interview is marked by a true naiveté about international perception and what can be gotten away with in the name of "all in good fun."
December 26, 2014
It's stupid. It's in bad taste. It impossible. I know all that. But Rogen's instinct to try anything for giggles and sticking it to dictatorial assholes is worth fighting for. Screw Kim if he can't take a joke.
June 07, 2016
It's funny and strange, with an admirably gonzo sensibility, and it approaches the job of mocking Kim with the appropriate degree of joy-buzzer delight.
April 25, 2017
The enormous expectation created by a stupid political controversy only generated a disappointing feeling in front of a comedy without depth. [Full review in Spanish]
August 20, 2015
The suffocating level of redundancy on display kneecaps any legitimate chance the film had at embracing social satire.
January 06, 2015
What's wrong with The Interview is that it doesn't know how to be the singeing comedy it wants.
February 06, 2017
Hysterical, silly, big dumb fun that makes for a great night out with your friends.
December 21, 2015
The Interview, conversely, is little more than a sloppy air kiss blown lazily under the banner of free speech.
December 26, 2014
This is what all the fuss was about?
April 14, 2016
[Franco's] free-spirited screen presence gives the film the kind of anarchic momentum it requires, mirroring its totally-serious-but-not-at-all-serious bent.
January 01, 2015
Te best satire provokes and even outrages, and Rogen, Franco and Goldberg certainly succeed on that score.
