The Interview
Tags: revenge, comedy, satire, murder

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, a little Korean girl is singing the North Korean national anthem, which features hateful and violent lyrics against the United States. Then in the next shot, a nuclear missile is launched into the sky. News stations around America report on the controversial actions of North Korea, and comment on the leadership of Kim Jong-un (Randall Park).Meanwhile, Dave Skylark (James Franco) is the host of an entertainment talk show called "Skylark Tonight" in New York City. He starts his show by interviewing Eminem (appearing as himself). Dave's producer and best friend Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) is in the control room with the crew. Dave asks Em about the offensive lyrics to his songs. Em says most of them stem from personal feelings while very casually letting it slip that he's gay. The crew freaks out and decides to strike while the iron is hot and exploit this. Aaron tells Dave what to ask while he and the crew celebrate Eminem coming out on their show.After the episode is done, Dave takes Aaron out at night to a surprise party that they hold for Aaron in celebration of airing 1,000 episodes. There, Aaron meets an old schoolmate named Jake (Anders Holm). Jake criticizes Aaron for selling out and reporting on stupid celebrity stories while Jake is working at "60 Minutes". This bothers Aaron and makes him self-conscious over his work.Dave has Rob Lowe as a guest on the show, where the actor reveals that he is bald and is wearing a hairpiece. He removes the hairpiece and shows off an odd-looking bald spot that grosses out the crew. The show is interrupted by more news on North Korea and their supply of nukes. After the taping, Aaron talks to Dave about doing more serious stories. Dave agrees to help Aaron with this.Aaron is on the phone with John Kerry's office to book an important figure for a guest, when Dave comes in and shows Aaron the Wikipedia page for Kim Jong-un. Apparently, he is a big fan of "Skylark Tonight". This inspires Dave to try and have Aaron book an interview with the reclusive dictator. Aaron decides to go for it, saying that he can get in touch with an office in Korea that holds the Olympics. One of the crew members then comes in and says there's a video of Matthew McConaughey having sex with a goat ("McConaughey goat fuck!"), which they NEED to get on.Aaron gets a phone call from a representative of the D.P.R.K. (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea), inviting him to travel to China to meet with North Koran officials to determine what to do with securing an interview with Kim. Aaron makes the trip to China, hiking all the way to the top of a mountain near the North Korean border. He collapses with exhaustion and is awoken by a helicopter descending. North Korean soldiers step out, followed by a woman named Sook (Diana Bang). She gives him instructions on what to do when meeting Kim. There will be written questions for Dave to ask Kim, scripted by his people. They leave him there with a small bottle of water.Returning to New York, Aaron tells Dave and everyone at the studio of his experience. Dave gets excited and brags to everyone on live TV that he has scored an interview with Kim Jong-un. He is subsequently criticized by other TV hosts like Seth Meyers and Bill Maher. Dave thinks they're just jealous, and he later does ecstasy with Aaron. They host a wild and destructive party at their house.The next morning, the guys are visited by Agents Lacey (Lizzy Caplan) and Botwin (Reese Alexander) from the CIA. Dave is immediately attracted to Lacey as she tells them the reason for her visit. Since they are going into North Korea, the CIA has decided to use them to assassinate Kim. This is so that a coup d'etat by the North Korean military can happen and the people of North Korea can finally have a suitable leader. Dave immediately accepts, but Aaron pulls him into another room and tells him that Lacey is probably trying to "honeypot" them by exploiting her good looks to rope them into a plot like this.Dave and Aaron go to the CIA headquarters where Lacey briefs them on their mission. She warns them that Kim is a master manipulator and that the people have spread rumors like that he doesn't go to the bathroom. The plan is to use a ricin-laced strip to poison Kim when Dave shakes his hand. Dave thinks a better plan would be to blow Kim up on live TV, and then get rescued by Seal Team Six. Lacey comments on how stupid and unsafe this is, and that the ricin strip is simple and more effective. They test it out with Dave, but he accidentally covers his mouth when sneezing. They leave with the strip, which Dave put in a pack of gum instead of the bag that the CIA gave him, because he thinks Kim would get suspicious if he saw Dave with an unflattering bag. The two walk out before a crowd of cameramen to whom Dave brags about meeting him and "giving him something using a hand".The two travel to North Korea and are welcomed by a big crowd at the airport near the capital city of Pyongyang. Sook guides them through the city to dispel the rumors of North Korea's famine. They drive by a supermarket and see a chubby boy on the street to convince Dave and Aaron that the people there are not starving. Sook takes them to Kim's palace outside the city in a wooded area and introduces them to Officers Koh (James Yi) and Yu (Paul Bae). Yu looks through Dave's bag and finds the strip. Panicking, he and Aaron say it's gum. Yu chews it and then spits it out. The guys are then escorted to their room and they scan the place for listening devices using a watch from the CIA. They contact Lacey and inform her that they lost the strip.That evening, the CIA sends a package with a replacement strip to be air dropped. Aaron is forced to put on dark clothes and sneak out of the hotel to retrieve the package while communicating with Dave and Lacey. While out there, he encounters a tiger. Aaron makes a run for it and the tiger chases him. He is saved when the package lands on the tiger and kills it. Aaron gets the package and then hears from Lacey that they see people arriving toward his location with guns. Dave tells Aaron to hide the package in his butt. Aaron reluctantly does so and is taken back to his room by soldiers. They strip him nude but find nothing. Aaron removes the package from his butt and shows it to Dave. They find that there are two strips in there in case they messed up again.Later, Kim shows up to Dave's room and is excited to meet him. He invites Dave to join him on a tour of his land. They hang out in his tank and listen to Katy Perry's "Firework" and drink margaritas, even though Kim was previously ashamed of liking those. He plays basketball with Dave on a private court and talks about how he has been trying hard to carry on his father's and grandfather's legacy. Kim surprises Dave by inviting a bunch of gorgeous Korean women so they can all party together.The guys are invited to a state dinner with a performance from three children. Aaron notices Yu looking sweaty and unwell as the ricin is starting to take effect. He motions to Dave, who notices. Yu stands up and vomits blood. Koh tries to calm him down. Yu takes out his gun to kill himself, but he ends up shooting Koh in the head, spraying blood everywhere. Kim cries for them, as does everyone else.Afterwords, this incident gives Dave doubts on the mission, and he throws the ricin strip away in a fountain against Aaron's protest.Kim goes to Dave's room again to invite him to another dinner. Aaron sticks his hand out with the other strip in his palm to poison Kim himself, but Dave stops him. At this dinner, the once-charming Kim reveals his true aggression and violent nature when he threatens nuclear warfare against every enemy of his in retaliation for the deaths of his two best officers. Dave leaves frightened. On the streets, he walks past the supermarket and finds that it's a fake with a wall painted to look like a grocery store, along with fake fruits on display. His trust for Kim has completely gone.Sook visits Aaron in his room as he is trying to get the strip off his hand. They acknowledge their attraction for each other and start to try having sex, but they stop when Sook says she gave Aaron false information regarding potato growth. Dave comes in, forcing Sook to hide under the covers. He tells Aaron of his distrust for Kim and blurts out the assassination plot. Sook gets up and admits her hatred for Kim and plans to manipulate the interview so that they can catch Kim in a moment of weakness so that all his people will stop viewing him as a god.The time comes for the interview to take place. Kim and Dave prepare themselves while Aaron and Sook operate the control room. Kim gives Dave a puppy as a gift to remind Dave of his old dog. Both the United States and all of North Korea watch the event. Dave begins by asking Kim the scripted questions as instructed about Kim's life and upbringing. Dave slowly builds up to sensitive topics until he asks Kim why his people are starving. Kim counters this by saying that his people are well-fed and argues that they would have more food were it not for the unfair sanctions held by the United States. As Dave's questions get more intense, a man in the control room attempts to cut the feed, but Aaron fights him off. The man bites off two of Aaron's fingers while Aaron bites off one of his fingers and causes the man to sit on a control stick that gets shoved up his ass. Sook shoots the man in the head before he can kill Aaron. Meanwhile, Dave brings up the margaritas, Kim's father, and then starts singing "Firework" to cause Kim to break down in tears and even "shart" himself. The soldiers and station crew start arguing and can't believe what they're seeing from their leader. In his rage, Kim pulls out a gun and threatens Dave. He shoots Dave in the chest on live TV. Dave falls to the floor as Kim leaves. Dave stands up and reveals he was wearing a bulletproof vest.The soldiers storm toward the control room. Sook shoots them all down. She and Aaron reunite with Dave and the puppy. Kim learns that Dave survived and gets angry because he got "honeydicked" by Dave when he was already trying to "honeydick" him. Dave, Aaron, and Sook attempt to escape when they see more soldiers heading toward them. Dave runs back to commandeer Kim's tank and run the soldiers over. Kim gets in his chopper and prepares to launch a nuclear strike. The chopper fires at the three in the tank. Dave aims the tank at the chopper and launches an RPG, obliterating Kim in a fiery blast, and holding off the launch.Sook leads Dave and Aaron to a mining tunnel that will take them west to the coast. She and Aaron part with one last passionate kiss. He and Dave make it far enough and are rescued by Seal Team Six. They take the guys home. As they ride across the sea, the two reflect on their adventure.Back home, Dave writes a tell-all book on the mission. North Korea is shown to be prospering with democratic elections starting to take place. Aaron also manages to keep in touch with Sook through Skype.

Review: Seth and Franco gave a good performance but the movie had a lame plot and subpar lines..
-The story, mainly the concept, does not wear out like Let's Be Cops, but actually gets better and better.-The pace is pretty good and the film does not waste time.
-The acting is especially funny with James Franco and Randall Park, who played Kim. However Seth Rogan just played the SAME.
There are some pretty iffy jokes, but it's mainly just language throughout that gives it its rating.-So if you don't mind language and are looking for an actually funny film that is entertaining and takes an original concept to great use, The Interview is totally worth seeing in thea- oh wait, nevermind.
"The Interview" (2014 release; 112 min.) brings the story of how an entertainment reporter Dave Skylark (played by James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (played by Seth Rogen) get an opportunity to interview Kim Jong-un.
i really wanted to like this movie.Not only because the trailer for this movie looked great, but also because of the sony hack from north Korea.
What a waste of time, the publicity surrounding this movie cannot be bought, it was priceless, and so I had to watch it, stayed in Christmas eve expecting rubbish, and sure enough Sony delivered ..I enjoyed "world police" so I gave this a try because when I looked on IMDb they recommended this movie as well, everyone has to watch it of course.
Don't get sucked into the hype machine this film isn't worth it unless you find Rogen and Franco funny for some reason.
I kinda' laughed one time, but can't remember at what now as the movie was that bad.Do yourself a favor, wait until someone you know pays to download the movie and loan it to you as you will still feel ripped off after having spent nearly 2 hours wondering what all the hype was about.
And I was surprised it was actually very entertaining from the beginning to the end.I'm thinking these bad reviews either come from the North Koreans, the Chinese or people who were expecting something on a Lord Of The Rings level masterpiece.Watch and enjoy!.
Awful from the start to the bitter end.People will go and see it and it is a shame that for such a large audience the film delivers only juvenile humour, bad acting, stupidity at every turn and no intelligent message.
The film follows an overweight chap with pubic hair on his head and James Franco (that bloke you thought you recognised from that Wizard of Oz reboot thing a couple of years ago) as they, just a couple of pesky ne'er-do-wells, are tasked by the American version of MI6 to kill the leader of North Korea.
This movie is fairly mild for Western audiences, but if the people of North Korea saw this film, they might just start a revolt as the movie suggests.This movie deserves a ten and my money just for putting it out there for net release.
Franco, Rogan, and Park create an unpredictable 3-way bromance with heart, energy, and more than a few subversive jabs at both North Korean and American culture.Yes the plot is ridiculous.
And to paraphrase a line from the movie, yes some of the humor is "lowbrow with a capital 'low.'" But it's the funniest of 41 movies I've seen in theaters in 2014 (so far.)My advice: if you want to see a truly funny over-the-top farce, go see "The Interview.".
Never had written anything on IMDb, after watching this movie for 30 minutes i felt compelled to protect others of this delusion.This is by far the worst "comedy" i have ever seen, probably written by a 11 year old sexually frustrated boy.
Everything in this movie i could predict at the beginning of the scene.I read some positive reviews on IMDb and could not stop thinking about this scene in idiocray (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlJgU9x8tM) about people in the future being so dumb, they enjoy watching an farting ass for 90 minutes (farting ass movie is haute culture compared to this).After seeing this movie i hoped the hack was just an excuse not to release this embarrassing peace of crap.I normally am a advent believer in free speech, after seeing this shitty movie i think there are somethings people should be protected against (pun intended)..
I believe many people wrote reviews here without actually watching the movie.
If you don't like Seth Rogen's brand of humor or raunchy comedies then you won't like this movie.
I did enjoy this film it was very funny and shows us about Kim Jong Un and North Korea.
If the North Koreans had bothered to view the movie they got so upset about, they would have seen there was no insult to anyone except the makers of this film..
Only 1 day after its release The Interview is 3rd better movie ever, and has 58,000+ votes?There is always a ratio between the number of votes and the number of reviews and this time something is obviously wrong.
Having watched this movie, I can completely understand why the producers decided to come up with the idea that north Korea stole blah blah Because that would be the only way to make this boring piece of trash anyway interesting.Gay jokes all around packed up with a totally silly plot line to which I only laughed once, until I got so fed up I just left.Do yourself a favor and don't pay for something which North Korea or anyone for that matter would not spend a minute of its time trying to hack.All and all, just a publicity stunt for a very undeserving movie.
It just shows how low Hollywood comedies has reach.If i was an USA citizen i will be ashame of this, because the movie is not just offensive for north Korea, is and offense with the audience.
i really loved this movie we got invited to see an advanced screening and i didn't know what to expect when i saw the screening but was pleasantly surprised to say the least its so hilarious great acting and wonderful cinematography (canda is so pretty) which is rare in most comedy and great comedic writing also an intelligent political satire of the crazy times we live in !
James and Seth deliver again, they just get funnier as they get older somehowif you get a chance to see this movie definitely recommend it cant wait until it comes out on for retail so i can enjoy all of the funny moments in detail again.
made by talentless cretins, all IMDb votes that were made before release should be deleted to show true nature on how awful this film is as it should be 0/10 not 8.5?????could have been written by 12 year olds with a stiffy and anal fixation, also sexist and racist which i can excuse when it's used to make a point about sexist or racism but here is nothing but adolescent vomit pouring from the mouths of people who should know better and if the waking public were smart enough should spell career kryptonite for these two overrated that decided that this was a good idea in the first place.worst thing is it could of actually been a good idea as i was drawn to the films plot and wanted to see it even before the so called hack happened, but didn't realise it was written by the people at Viz magazineit is also proof sony had just wasted 24 million and decided to blame north Korea on a bogus leak in order to get publicity and recoup the money, please do not succumb to your curiosity it isn't worth it, watch Team America instead..
The film is essentially a buddy comedy where a talk show host played by James Franco and his producer played by Seth Rogen head to North Korea to interview Kim Il Un. Before they go the CIA however gives them the task of assassinating the leader.
The film has it's moments and it is funny at times but I find it ends up being just mediocre and you keep wishing that Franco's character wouldn't speak as much.
Nor was the guy who played Kim Jong-Un. James Franco's portrayal as host of a TMZ-style gossip show was a little too over-the-top for me, but he was the most entertaining person in the movie.I feel it's safe to predict no Academy Awards for this one, nor the downfall of the North Korean government because of the movie..
They actually could have gotten a decent movie if they had relied on creativity and talent.So now after Sony has received so much attention from the hacking and now so many people like me have seen it, who would not otherwise have, I wonder if they are ashamed of the attention now?
As soon as you add Seth Rogan and James Franco in a movie together, you know your going to get a crappy lousy perverted stupid dumb unfunny drug influenced film.These losers are only good at making dumb perverted movies, and this movie also portrays a lot of that.
The more Hollywood pushes out films like these, they are only shooting themselves in the foot.This is why today you don't get any good quality movies, its all crap now.At one point Seth Rogan was actually funny, and now its just too much, Hollywood needs to tone it down with all these sex and drug jokes, this is why todays youth are messed up, because they learn from these stupid movies.There were some funny parts, but it was just overall stupid, and they could have made this an Oscar winning movie if executed correctly with the right actors on screen, not losers like Seth Rogan and James Franco.James Franco WAY overacted, it made me sick to my stomach just watching him act so stupid throughout the whole film, nothing but childish unwanted behavior that had came so randomly, and I sometimes honestly wonder if these guys really are on drugs when filming.Eminem admitting he's gay to James in the beginning scene while he's being interviewed, I mean really wtf!
When I watched the Interview I was hoping for another wacky film such as Pineapple Express or This is the End....Instead what I saw was a masterpiece of Hollywood hype around a rather unfunny and if anything a rather sympathetic look at North Korea.In fact it made me wonder if the entire internet fiasco around this film was actually staged by Sony, and No. Korea may have been truthful in maintaining it had nothing to do with it.From start to finish the Interview isn't very funny at all...I didn't even see much frat boy or toilet humour...it seemed to be about a budding relationship between Kim Jung Un and Dave Skylark.
The attempts at jokes seemed to be just plain stupid.There's one type of comedy that is so stupid it actually is very funny such as Dude Where's My Car and Pineapple Express, then there's this where the attempt at seriousness destroys any lame humour.But I must applaud Sony for a masterpiece of hype that will make a box office winner out of Christmas turkey..
None the less, the movie is fun, as it just makes fun of itself and North Korea.Seth Rogen directs a pretty straight forward film about the US and its need for fluffy news and non-news news broadcaster.
I can also understand why another nation would be upset, this is a movie that would disgust any average person, in America we are numb to it but I can understand why a group of people wouldn't want themselves included in garden variety American garbage like this.I am sick of all these comedies where the main characters are total and complete morons.
The jokes in all these comedy movies just like "The Interview," if you were to tell them to people you know like friends or coworkers, they would just look at you like you you're a moron.
The movie is over-hyped..would not be surprised if the entire Sony hack was a marketing stunt to make more from this movie then it actually is.Also the whole North Korea theme is idiotic and a very uneducated portrayal, its not the place of the west to make a satire like that...and if they do...at least they should put some effort into it.The movie is OK if you want to drink a beer and watch something that might be slightly funny from time to time...but the weak storyline really ruins this...and most of the time the jokes are not even funny and would only be to pot smoking teens.I can understand why North Korea takes this as an insult, you would at least think that when a sensible subject like this is being touched that it would at least be more intelligent..
This feels like so much more of a scam than before, and everyone fell for it.This movie was already going to be nothing but toilet humor and bad scripts as Seth Rogen is infamous for.
The movie is fun, James Franco and Seth Rogen are hilarious, Randall Park created a cruel but also very sympathizable dictator junior, and the music in the movie is pretty good.
The only problem I have with this movie is that I don't think it's a good idea to actually use the 'Kim Jung Un' to name the character, it makes the movie a little too much 'political', this is supposed to be a comedy, it's just for fun, so why bother to act like it's trying to implicate some real problems in reality while we have bunch of other channels of information for those issues, I think this only makes the movie take some propaganda taste.
I liked the trailer and I watched it way before the controversy started, so I was just waiting for this to come out, I have always liked Seth Rogen and Franco both for their earlier work.But man o man, how much over the top they have gone, everything is too much, they are trying to make you laugh 10 times in one scene, its just kind of feels very desperate by everyone in the film.And then its so vulgar, so erratic and so many double meaning jokes, I don't mind any of that but there are so many and so many of them are so repeated and copied and they do not work.You do laugh once in a while, but mostly you make an awkward face.
Would they think it funny to make a movie about, say, a stalker who sets out to kill the arrogant, over-indulged, unfunny Seth Rogan?The filmmakers thought they were so powerful they could slight a whole country and get away with it, though I wouldn't be surprised if Sony Pictures hacked themselves as an excuse to pull the plug on this awful movie..
I'll go further: It's both a cult movie, a classic, and a blockbuster.Half the fun I had was watching how Seth pushed all the right cash register buttons throughout the movie, true to the line he has James Franco repeating over and over: "That's what the people want, give us some sh*t." The "people" in question are of course the young adults that provide the biggest chunk of the US box office, immediately followed by senior citizens.
And North Korea, I am sure Sony thanks you for giving this movie 100 times more publicity than if you had done nothing to prevent the release of the film.U-S-A!
I am at a loss to try and understand how this movie got so high reviews to start with, is the whole Sony hacking, North Korea media show just an elaborate hoax to boast the box office numbers.
I can think of a few possibilities: (a) In a masterful move, Sony partnered with North Korea and its dictator and thousands of Korean users were forced to register at IMDb and give good grades to the movie in order to preserve their fingernails.
When I'm watching a movie by myself, it's rare that I'll laugh out loud, but this film had me giggling the whole way through.
I just felt this responsibility to let as many people know who might be in the same position as I were thinking that it's the movie worth watching..
James Franco is a great actor and has played good roles, his acting in this film is good also and obviously its a satirical movie there is some comedic parts but the script is just awful.
I expected the comedy to be witty, but wit apparently isn't something Rogen is familiar with anymore, which is disappointing, because both he and Franco have had many, many better movies and television shows than this tripe.
The humor is just like any other Seth Rogen-flick, so as someone who really appreciates his other movies, this sat right with me.
A dumb late-night TV-show presenter (James Franco)and his slightly more rational producer (Seth Rogen) land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un (played by Randall Park).
The chemistry between Rogen and Franco is just a wonderful thing to see, and Randall Park does a great job as Kim Jong-Un. I personally laughed through most of the movie.
Note: English is my second language, so don't hold it against me.Before this movie come out, I remembered Team America: World Police also narrative about killing Kim Jong-il, and the ex-leader of North Korean ban the film.
The Interview is a predictable movie about friendship between Dave Skylark, played wonderfully by James Franco (who had a bizarre career) and Aaron Rapaport, played by Seth Rogen go to North Korea to take Kim Jong-un out.
At first, I have totally no interest in the movie, until it got a lot of attention because of the Sony hack and North Korean conspiracy stuff, and I decided to give it a try because, who knows, it might be so much better than I've thought.