The Dictator
The movie follows the heroics of an oppressive dictator of the Wadiya Republic; Hafez Aladeen until his adventurous trip to the USA.
4 June 1969, Santiago, Chile
20 July 1961, Glen Cove, New York, USA
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
6 August 1970, London, England, UK
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2 October 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 July 1965, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA
29 November 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 December 1966, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
31 May 1960, New York City, New York, USA
June 02, 2013
A mix of gimme jokes and fish-out-of-water observations about a foreigner's introduction to New York City that were rendered clichéd by 'Crocodile Dundee.'
March 04, 2013
Underrated comic excellence from Sacha Baron Cohen with plenty of sharp satire lacing the broader gross-out gags.
March 04, 2013
Consistently offensive, and not in a way that should automatically be dismissed as 'edgy' or 'provocative'.
June 30, 2013
This comedy succeeds as a crude, inventive and humours look at a dumb despot.
May 17, 2012
On the laughmeter The Dictator is closer to Borat than to the misfired Bruno, which is to say it's funny for about half of its brisk 83 minutes.
May 03, 2015
Feels more like one of those lousy SNL movies from the early nineties than the work of our sharpest contemporary satirist.
May 16, 2012
Most of The Dictator had me neither laughing nor shocked, but just staring at the screen in anxious is-that-all-there-is? silence.
May 22, 2012
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.
June 23, 2013
This is not a character who can hold the center of a movie for 90 minutes.
May 17, 2012
Now [Cohen is] turning material both fresh and rancid into tepid gruel.
May 16, 2012
A bit scattershot and schticky, the film never quite settles into a consistent comic rhythm. Yet for fans of Baron Cohen's work there are plenty of moments of crass hilarity.
May 03, 2016
The problem is that, unlike Ali G, Borat, and Brüno, Aladeen is less a force of nature than a scripted performance.
