Critics Hate 'The Interview'

The Hill
Dec. 25, 2014

I watched it expecting nothing, it opens with almost zero character development and doesn't have much pull, but I thought it ended up being a decent movie, with some very funny parts. It's not jingoistic propaganda, and pokes fun at US interventionism at a few points, but it doesn't have an overly political message either way. (As opposed to a movie that is straight pentagon-run propaganda like Pearl Harbor (See: Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes And Censors The Movies). That said I'm a 29 year old male, though I find graphic violence repellant, which the film has a decent amount of, I've been somewhat desensitized to it as it's the new gimmick which seems to be in tons of modern comedy films/sketches (I detest the trend, but I just ignore it when I see it). I could see older people with different tastes hating it. - Chris, InfoLib Movie critics say the controversy surrounding "The Interview" is much more interesting than the movie itself 

The movie is scoring just a 50 percent positive review from critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

It's fairing even more poorly with top critics, who give it a measly 32 percent positive rating.The film is doing better with regular fans, however. It gets a 73 percent "liked it" audience score from Rotten Tomatoes.

Critics say the satire about a television host and producer asked by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jung-un doesn't deliver the goods.

"Characterizing it as satire elevates the creative execution of the film's very silly faux assassination of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un far beyond what it merits," writes Betsy Sharkey in the Lost Angeles Times.

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