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Wildly uneven but consistently provocative, The Dictator is a decent entry in the poli-slapstick comedy genre. Read critic reviews
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The Dictator videos
The Dictator: Official Clip - The Vegan Jihad
The Dictator: Official Clip - The Aladeen Law
The Dictator: Official Clip - Nuclear Nadal
The Dictator: Official Clip - Death to Aladeen
The Dictator: Official Clip - Delivering Love
The Dictator: Official Clip - Seducing Megan Fox
The Dictator: Official Clip - You're Making a Fool out of Me!
The Dictator: Official Clip - You Need to Touch Yourself
The Dictator: Official Clip - A Snag on the Zipline
The Dictator: Official Clip - The Helicopter
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Movie Info
Gen. Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) has ruled the oil-rich North African country of Wadiya since the age of six, when 97 stray bullets and a hand grenade killed his father in a hunting accident. After an assassination attempt takes the life of yet another body-double, Tamir (Ben Kingsley), Aladeen's uncle and most trusted adviser, convinces Aladeen to go to New York. Unfortunately, Aladeen has a less-than-friendly reception from exiled Wadiyans, who want their country freed from his despotic rule.
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Rating: R (Language|Brief Male Nudity|Some Violent Images|Strong Crude & Sexual Content)
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Genre: Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Larry Charles
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Producer: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Anthony Hines, Scott Rudin, Todd Schulman
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Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $59.6M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Production Co: Four by Two Films, Scott Rudin Productions, Berg Mandel Schaffer
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Niaiseux à fond, mais drôle. très divertissant.
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"Why are you guys so anti-dictatorship? Imagine if America was a dicatatorship! You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health-care and education. Your media would appear free; but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wire-tape phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests. I knew this is hard for you Americans to imagine, but please: try!" Political "satires" about dictators seem to end with a memorable speech. Even if Sacha went unscripted and went full-throttle against the American "dream" and the illusionary concept of democracy in modernity, the entire formula falls into sixth grade humor and significantly disturbing pacing issues. So what pushed the rating up? The final speech all right. Whenever America (America means the U.S., right? Haha, like if U.S. now represented an entire continent's name) is called the birth place of AIDS and the perfect illustration of dictatorship, I'm sorry, but my rating will be pushed up. That speech magically fixed like so many flaws in a rather atrocious film. 51/100
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Unwatchable. And I love Sacha movies.
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Sacha Baron Cohen really tries to extend the shock factor to create comedy, but the method has worked thin and has made me lose interest in his next project.
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