The Dictator

May. 16,2012      R
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Sacha Baron Cohen as  Aladeen / Efawadh
Ben Kingsley as  Tamir
Anna Faris as  Zoey
Jason Mantzoukas as  Nadal
Sayed Badreya as  Omar
Adeel Akhtar as  Maroush
Aasif Mandvi as  Doctor
Rizwan Manji as  Patient
Liam Campora as  Aladeen Age 6
Rick Chambers as  Newscaster Voiceover (voice)

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Reviews

AniInterview
2012/05/16

Sorry, this movie sucks

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InformationRap
2012/05/17

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Invaderbank
2012/05/18

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Derrick Gibbons
2012/05/19

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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szha-80064
2012/05/20

Why people are always so mean when score comedy? Do they know how hard it is to think out of an idea and express it to make its audience laugh? This movie is by all means hilarious and Sacha is definitely a genius. I have already watched more than four times and don't mind to watch again and again.

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reneenielsen1
2012/05/21

So wrong and yet so funny. From the opening scenes to the shorts within the credits including the last line of the film, I was roaring. It's crude and completely politically incorrect so if you're easily offended, don't bother. The jokes come one after another so pay close attention to the dialog. Aladeen is so closed off from the world that his completely obtuse and offensive observations come across as completely innocent and totally hilarious. Loved all the actors.

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anujnagpal-76062
2012/05/22

The Dictator could easily be mistaken for a gross-out comedy at first, but it's a much cleverer work than what it looks like. Being a black comedy movie, audience may find it uncomfortable and offensive at times but that doesn't mean you should judge it as a movie not worth watching. Every other dialogue is filled with racist and sexist comments and their delivery is done in such a way that instead of offending you, they make you giggle for a second or two. The movie is a political satire which is perfectly grinded with comedy to make it entertaining.Starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen, the dictator of a nation named Wadiya, he may seem like a dedication to Kim Jong-II, the late Norh Korean supreme leader, at some points. Aladeen tries his best that democracy never enters his nation, but his uncle Tahir (Ben Kingsley) who is the heir to the throne, is conspiring for something else. While Aladeen is invited to the UN summit for signing a new era of democracy in Wadiya, a series of interesting incidents made him face a completely different life. Sacha Baron Cohen has tried a way to work out his frustration with everything from governmental policy to the cost of wireless internet in hotels into this movie and his final speech is a slingshot on the democrats expressing what it would be for America to become a dictatorship and that just only to reveal that nothing would be changed.Apart from serving the viewers a complete bowl of humor, it is also a straight jab at the heart of politics across the world and it's done so almost to a point where it becomes more of a sad state of affairs than comedy.

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Python Hyena
2012/05/23

The Dictator (2012): Dir: Larry Charles / Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, Ben Kingsley, John C. Reilly: Here is a film that pokes fun of government and leadership with Sacha Baron Cohen starring as Admiral General Hafez Aladeen whose reputation is at the extremes in controversy. He is set to visit the United States but upon arrival he is kidnapped by the chief of security and replaced with a double by his scheming uncle. Aladeen escapes but without his beard, which was sheered during torture. He ends up being befriended by a political activist, played by Anna Faris who runs a health foods store with those whom she views as social outcasts. This is all quite funny as an idea but it soon becomes predictable and somewhat wayward in its concluding views. It does have a lot of funny moments thanks to Cohen being likable in the lead. He struggles to adapt to city life in New York while making his own rules as he goes. Another hilarious appearance comes from Jason Mantzoukas as Aladeen's nuclear weapons manufacturer who was believed to have been executed. He and Aladeen have a funny argument regarding whether the top of the weapon should be pointed. Other roles are typical. Faris has comic potential as seen in Observe and Report but here she is just the bunt of male jokes due to her short hair. Ben Kingsley as the uncle is also one dimensional despite his efforts. John C. Reilly makes an appearance as a contact with another agenda. Cohen and director Larry Charles together again with an assault on government but this is no Borat. Score: 6 / 10

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