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Barry is compellingly creepy as the self-named assassin.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
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Barry is compellingly creepy as the self-named assassin.
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The old man who lives across the street, Walter Ohlinger (Raymond J. Barry), invites his neighbor, Ron Kobeleski (Dylan Haggerty), over because he has a secret that he's never told anyone: He claims he was the grassy knoll assassin who shot John F. Kennedy and wants Haggerty to document his confession. He has the bullet casing which he saved and says there is one witness left alive who can prove his story. The two search for the man that hired Ohlinger, but are thwarted by mysterious forces who
May 9, 2002 Wide
Jun 17, 2003
Magnolia Pictures
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I haven't yet decided whether Burger is exposing our paranoia or exploiting it, but if people are more inclined to believe him than the Warren Report, is that his fault?
Interview With the Assassin is a satisfying picture that like a pot of water on the stove keeps heating up until it explodes.
This film offers a compelling scenario of what could have happened.
[Barry] gives Assassin a disquieting authority.
Begins as a promising meditation on one of America's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt.
In the end, the movie bogs down in insignificance, saying nothing about Kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate.
it adds no substantial insights into the mind of an assassin
Rises above its modest production values and fairly simple idea by way of veteran character actor Raymond J. Barry's riveting performance.
Fascinating.
This schlock shocker, at once blunt and fine tuned, is a revealing sendup of America's peculiar paranoid affair with gun love culture and tabloid mythology.
It could've been a great thriller, but not once does Burger create a believable moment.
As for the script, it wanders around in circles when it should be building a sense of paranoia and menace.
Barry convinces us he's a dangerous, secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful.
There are no big-name actors and no fancy camera work. But that's what makes it interesting.
Writer-director Burger imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear.
...best seen as speculative history, as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the Warren Report.
A Blair Witch-inspired mockumentary that, while based on a brilliant premise, is disappointingly bumpy nonetheless.
Works because we're never sure if Ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying, delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks.
...an impressive and challenging piece of work.
Whereas Oliver Stone's conspiracy thriller JFK was long, intricate, star-studded and visually flashy, Interview with the Assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity.
Consistently interesting, often suspenseful, and endearingly silly.
For most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche.
Intriguing enough mock doc about JFK's second shooter is propelled by performances.
September 11, 2007Super Reviewer
loved the concept....effective camera work and superior acting by Barry..this makes the film all the more believable and is a chilling variation on the JFK conspiracy
June 6, 2008
Super Reviewer
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