Boston Globe review of The Interview

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2014/12/25/dopey-and-gory-the-interview-was-bound-disappoint/3PCtTjiY1Mu1AqRDbmzVpM/story.html

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Surprise — “The Interview” is upon us, released by a shamed Sony Pictures on Christmas Eve in digital streaming formats (YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Video, and the Sony website SeetheInterview.com) and on Christmas Day in about 300 theaters around the country, including Cambridge’s Apple Cinemas. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, so this is the little movie that caused the big fuss.

And little it is, a dopey bro-com that piddles along delivering mild laughs until it turns overly, unamusingly bloody in the climactic scenes. The daring of its makers — co-writer/co-director/star Seth Rogen, co-writer/co-director Evan Goldberg, co-writer Dan Sterling, star James Franco — extends only as far as using a living, breathing, notoriously humorless, and nuclear-armed head of state as the target of all the fun. After all we’ve been through on this, it would be nice to report that “The Interview” was a great movie. But I think we all knew what to expect, and on that score — disappointment — the film does not disappoint.
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