The Dictator
2012, Comedy, 1h 23m
221 Reviews 100,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Wildly uneven but consistently provocative, The Dictator is a decent entry in the poli-slapstick comedy genre. Read critic reviews
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Gen. Aladeen, Efawadh
Zoey
Tamir
Nadal
Slade
Self
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Critic Reviews for The Dictator
All Critics (221) | Top Critics (65) | Fresh (126) | Rotten (95)
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I think I can feel it disappearing from my mind even as I am trying to remember it... It's Baron Cohen going at 50mph rather than 100mph.
September 1, 2018 | Full Review… -
The problem is that, unlike Ali G, Borat, and Brno, Aladeen is less a force of nature than a scripted performance.
May 3, 2016 | Full Review… -
Both the laughter and the satire had crawled off and quietly died.
June 1, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
The film has a vicious edge that the Marx Brothers didn't have, and it's too low-minded to achieve their enchanting blend of anarchy and surrealism.
May 22, 2012 | Full Review… -
You would strain to identify The Dictator as a clever movie. But it doesn't quite work as a big dumb movie either.
May 20, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
Now [Cohen is] turning material both fresh and rancid into tepid gruel.
May 17, 2012 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Dictator
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Aug 19, 2015Niaiseux à fond, mais drôle. très divertissant.Marc-André B Super Reviewer
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Oct 05, 2013"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. 51/100Edgar C Super Reviewer
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Aug 20, 2013Unwatchable. And I love Sacha movies.Curtis L Super Reviewer
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Aug 09, 2013Sacha 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.Nicolas K Super Reviewer
The Dictator Quotes
| General Aladeen: | I accept your job offer as general manager. |
| Zoey: | Well you can’t be the manager because I’m the manager. |
| Zoey: | Well you can't be the manager because I'm the manager. |
| General Aladeen: | Well I can if I killed you. |
| General Aladeen: | Good morning Nadal! Wake up, Good Morning Nadal! |
| Nadal: | WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Nadal: | Waaaaaaaaaa! |
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