Sasha Baron Cohen reprises his role as crazy Kazahk Reporter in the USA

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2006)

Finally, one of the most talked about films of the year has arrived! 'Borat' is everything you never dreamed of and then some. Critics have praised the shameless audacity of comic genius Sasha Baron Cohen, who stars as one of his three alter-egos Â– the Kazakh news reporter Borat. There is no film more blatantly crass, vulgar or chauvinistic than Baron Cohen's 82 minute escapade.
The film tracks the journey of a fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, to the US and A. Sasha Baron Cohen, aka Ali-G and Bruno, plays the bungling, anti-Semitic, vulgar character of Borat as he traverses the United States in search of Pamela Anderson. The film exemplifies one inescapable reality of life, that it is a journey and not a destination. Indeed the film Borat is more a testament to the uncanny ability of Baron Cohen to extract the innermost feelings from his guests without them having a clue that he is having them on. The Americans expose their contemptuous feelings towards Jews and Muslims and gays, in a film formula which highly effective.
Borat is an uncompromisingly uncouth character, devoid of Western airs and graces. The Freudian references to the male genitalia, a measure of his masculinity are constantly displayed in the film. Phallic symbolism is displayed in abundance in Borat and the hysterical irony of his endeavors with many gays, prostitutes and Jews drives home the point of a prevailing prejudice in all inanity. This is film which will have you in stitches throughout its duration. At times you will be wondering how on earth Borat has the gall to defecate in the Trump gardens, or how he nakedly wrestles his compatriot for what is an uncomfortably long time.
Either way, this film which cost $18 million to make will realize unbelievable returns. Borat could only be done with someone of the ilk of the inimitable Sasha Baron Cohen.
Be warned, there is explicit nudity, innuendo and strong language.