Lets Get down to it!
Once in a while
there comes a movie that you havent heard of anywhere but you simply cannot
resist the feeling of getting and watching it. I don’t really know how but it
is a movie watcher's sixth sense. Yes, The Dictator is one of those amazing
movies. The moment I was about to get it, I knew that it was going to be
amazing. And boy did it turn out to be that way. Although I must tell you the
fact the it is not every reviewer's delight. It has certain very peculiar sour
spots that you feel like absolutely hating and skipping but then again if you
come to think of it they have their own importance in the whole story. So let
me take you through the experience. Here it is people
The Dictator- A review that just had to come!
The Intro
There are things in
this world that are funny, then there are things that are amusing and then
there are things that are absolutely hilarious. And when you are in utter
indecision of what to say on top of rolling on your back laughing, there is the
dictator comedy. From the very beginning, the movie is a satire about a middle
eastern nation with an overly ambitious dictator. Although the movie is not
quite about the dictator. It is more about the how the world sees one.
The Plot
Very old. That’s all
you can say about the plot as such. The whole setting is so old school James
Bond that you can tell the story. But then it had to be that way. The message
that the movie is looking forward to convey is something totally dependent upon
how much meaning the viewer can make out of the scenes shown. There are
innumerable references to every kind of shitty international politics that has
ever taken place anywhere across the world. One only needs to see it. The plot
is beautifully well set. The locations and the technical aspects, although very
few, have been very well handled. There is crispness in transitions, there is
understanding of what is comfortable for the viewer and there is an even better
understanding of how they can make the person on the other side of the screen
go red with embarrassment. One word of caution, do not! Watch it with your
parent/kids around.
The Characters
Again, this being a satire, there wasn't that much need for character depth as a general proper acting would suffice but the team has certainly taken a step forward towards understanding what was needed and imparted a considerable depth to the character of the dictator. There are points where you will be surprised by the way he acts and the way he carries. There are some, if you might call them, "mood swings" in the characters, but they somehow fit into the story very well and so at the end of it all it goes as a plus point to the movie.The Screenplay
Now here is where
the real gold lies. This is massively amazing screenplay. There is precision in
what they show and at the same time there is an element of uncertainty that
makes you want to sit and watch the movie unlike a lot of other such movies
where you just don’t feel like sitting through the damn thing. More often than
not, it is the humor that holds you down and yet, there are distinct events of
brilliance and pin pointing blames to sections of the international politics
that have openly dealt into the lobbying for their own profits. The dictator
has a story that will make you laugh like nobody's business and at the same
time tell you that the scene is not one where the nations of the world are
holding hands sitting on the back of a truck being driven by the UN as they
silently drive off into the sunset through the dry meadows.
The Feels
Now, this is the
section I made for myself, just to give you a broader idea of the movie and yet
avoiding to being way too general. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a pleasure
for a Saturday evening and it was time well spent. Though I would definitely want
some improvements in terms of view ability and how they could've deleted
certain scenes and could've covered a much bigger audience base. But then maybe
they wouldn’t have been able to give you the picture that they wanted. We would
never know what it would've been otherwise. But if you don’t mind semi-porn, it
will certainly serve your tastes very well.
I will give it a comfortable rating of 8.5/10.
So fetch your
popcorn and make sure you keep water alongside cause you don’t really want to
choke on the corn you see ;)
