The Dictator

R 6.4
2012 1 hr 23 min Comedy

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

  • Cast:
    Sacha Baron Cohen , Ben Kingsley , Anna Faris , Jason Mantzoukas , Sayed Badreya , Adeel Akhtar , Aasif Mandvi

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Reviews

VividSimon
2012/05/16

Simply Perfect

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CrawlerChunky
2012/05/17

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Kien Navarro
2012/05/18

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Billy Ollie
2012/05/19

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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drblagger
2012/05/20

In the words of Comic Book Guy "worse film ever" , its badly written you can tell its been scripted by a teenager with a crayon and not a lot of free time with predictable stereotyping of 3rd world dictators blatantly replicated the countries ending with -stan .If you read this review before you watch the film then take it from me Don't cause its 1hour forty six you will waste of your precious life and you will never get back.The acting quality is very poor especially from Sacha Baron Cohen and even from Sir Ben Kingsley i know even I'm shocked that distinguished actor Ben Kingsley would get involved in poor film.

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Joao Guilherme Araujo Schimidt
2012/05/21

The dictator is a comedy movie not just about dictatorship, but about our democracy too.First of all, the movie goes thought some stereotypes, begins with how we see the middle east, and the dictatorships, stupids and full of self pride. Although it shows a society with multiples interests, for good and for bad.Furthermore the dictator, called Aladeen, goes to America and suffer from a cultural shock in the way of life. After he has access to western way the way he thinks change and start to have more conscience. Besides the dictator epiphany, the main question is ourself reflection after listen his speech in the United Nation. About how unequal and unfair our society is, and beside the average sense we are more similar with dictatorship we use to think.All in all, the movies make a critical vision of our society, and how big is the possibilities ways we humans can organize ourself, it is amazing, for good and for bad. I strong recommend this movie, specially the final UN speech.

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Mattie Huggins
2012/05/22

I really enjoyed Sacha Baron Cohen's previous work with Borat. I came in to The Dictator with relatively high hopes for some good laughs. I'll say that I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. Cohen gets some great laughs on politically incorrect humour in to this film, and it's well done. In the first 10 minutes of the film, I was laughing my head off with the consistency of the humour, but I can see why in the later half this can not be abundant. However, sometimes this film falls flat, with a lot of humour being delayed in the last half of the movie. Sometimes it (but very rarely) feels like it is not Cohen. However these jokes are still a bundle of laughs for the right people. Overall it's a great film if you're familiar with Cohen's other work.

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Jack Stephens
2012/05/23

Sacha Baron Cohen has outdone himself on this one. This hilarious movie is about a dictator of whom the entire world hates. So the United Nations make him come to the US to sign a declaration for whether Wadiya will become a democracy(which of course he doesn't want). With plenty of laughs this movie will keep you laughing all the way through, of course if your comfortable with Sacha's comedy style. If you are familiar with one of his movies you can skip the next part because all his movies pretty much have the same style of comedy to them.WARNING! This movie does have a few racial remarks, mentions of Osama Bin Laden, mentions of children committing suicide(meant in a comedic way), they behead a man in order to get his beard(he is already dead and they don't show them cutting of his head), there are a few racial remarks towards a few people at a shop he works at, and a few more jokes that may offend the light-hearted.I give it an 9/10 but this is only because I found it really funny, definitely not for children below 14 (maybe 13 if they are mature enough) Definitely Sacha Baron Cohen's best movie and hope to see some more from him in the future.

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