Synopsis
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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Cast
- James FrancoDave Skylark
- Seth RogenAaron Rapaport
- Lizzy CaplanAgent Lacey
- Randall ParkPresident Kim Jong-un
- Diana BangSook
- Timothy SimonsMalcolm
- Reese AlexanderAgent Botwin
- James YiOfficer Koh
- Paul BaeOfficer Yu
- Geoff GustafsonCole
Recommendations
- 91
Hitfix
The Interview is laugh out loud funny all the way through, and once again proves that Rogen and Goldberg will do anything, no matter how dark, for a big laugh, and that character is just as important as punchlines in their work. - 91
The Playlist
Comedy is most effective when it’s taking a risk. Here, the directors took a big risk, and managed to finesse something shocking and novel out of the familiar Franco-Rogen dynamic without overplaying their hand. - 80
Time Out
Fashioning "The Great Dictator" and "Inglourious Basterds" into a cross joint and then lighting it from both ends, Goldberg and Rogen’s second directorial effort follows the hysterically violent misadventures of idiotic talk-show host Dave Skylark (James Franco, hamming it up) and his underachieving producer, Aaron (Rogen). - 60
The Guardian
Both Rogen and Franco, who have marvellous chemistry and exude good cheer, continue to tweak their personas in this very amusing, very imbecilic film. - 52
TheWrap
While The Interview never slacks in its mission to tell jokes, it's such a messy and meandering movie that it never quite lands as a satire of politics or the media or anything else. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
An intensely sophomoric and rampantly uneven comic takedown of an easy but worrisomely unpredictable target. - 50
USA Today
Considering the controversy and chaos Sony Pictures Studios is undergoing because of it, The Interview fails to live up to the hype, floundering as a rowdy comedy as it grows duller by the minute. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
It's a pity that the film is bereft of satiric zing, bludgeoning the laughs with a nonstop sledgehammer of bro humor.
