Synopsis
A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.
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Cast
- Bill MurrayRichie Lanz
- Zooey DeschanelRonnie
- Bruce WillisBombay Brian
- Kate HudsonMerci
- Taylor KinneyPrivate Barnes
- Danny McBrideNick
- Scott CaanJake
- Eugenia KuzminaGulla
- Sarah BakerMaureen
- Leem LubanySalima
Recommendations
- 50
Movie Nation
This lame, laugh-starved script makes him look like an Old Man — not a funny old man or a Grumpy old man (see the fine “St. Vincent” for that). Just old and not really up to trying too hard. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The gaps between the hipster comedy of the star, the incipient sentimentality of the story and the gravely depressing reality of the setting provide tonal abysses simply too vast to bridge in Rock the Kasbah, an intermittently amusing but dramatically problematic mish-mash that careens all over a rough and rocky road. - 42
The Playlist
Rarely has a mainstream comedy boasting this much talent been so structurally amateurish, to the point that the film’s lack of humor seems a secondary problem to its more pressing storytelling incoherence. - 40
Village Voice
The film often plays like everyone making it agreed that some on-set idea was so funny it had to be included, whether or not it suited the story. - 30
TheWrap
The cast of old pros (including Bruce Willis as a soldier of fortune) amble through amiably enough, but a few laughs here and there aren’t enough to make this movie come together in a satisfying way. - 25
IndieWire
Although no one comes off looking especially good, an acceptable alternate title for the film could be "The Ugly Americans," because Mitch Glazer's script takes some of the worst stereotypes about ex-pats and blows them sky high. - 25
Slant Magazine
The film quickly settles into a depressingly one-note groove as a culture-clashing circus act. - 20
The Guardian
There’s a special variety of infuriating that comes from a bad movie by talented people.
