Synopsis
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Cast
- Sacha Baron CohenAladeen / Efawadh
- Ben KingsleyTamir
- Anna FarisZoey
- Jason MantzoukasNadal
- Sayed BadreyaOmar
- Adeel AkhtarMaroush
- Aasif MandviDoctor
- Rizwan ManjiPatient
- Rocky CitronBaby Aladeen
- Liam CamporaAladeen Age 6
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
The Dictator isn't going to win awards and it isn't as hip as Borat. Big goofy outrageous laughs is what it has to offer. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Cohen employs a comic range that ricochets between wicked political barbs and the lowest anatomical farce, to often funny and occasionally hilarious effect. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
A superb vehicle for Sacha Baron Cohen's over-the-top socio-political outrageousness. - 80
Time
Fans of the nasty Baron Cohen may regret his being borderline nice in The Dictator. But we should welcome his decision to stop being the best at something few others dare try and instead to inhabit a more familiar comedy style--just going denser, wilder, better. He pulls it off. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The Dictator is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Cohen at his best is both brazen and sly. As is The Dictator. - 60
Variety
Typically, political correctness couldn't be farther from the filmmakers' mind, and yet, what the picture most sorely lacks is the sort of humanist appeal Chaplin delivered at the close of "The Great Dictator." - 60
Empire
Formulaic, yet scrappy, and extremely funny in fits and starts, General Aladeen is the first of Cohen comic creations to get a better vehicle than it probably deserves.
