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The Dictator
Hafez Aladeen is the ruler of Wadiya in North Africa and his comedic but oppressive mode of leadership.
20 August 1979, New York, New York, USA
4 November 1985, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
4 June 1960, USA
12 May 1965, Frunze, USSR
19 April 1971, Casablanca, Morocco
24 November 1983, Flemington, New Jersey, USA
22 February 1962, Queens, New York, USA
6 August 1970, London, England, UK
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
20 January 1979, Virginia, Minnesota, USA
June 23, 2013
This is not a character who can hold the center of a movie for 90 minutes.
March 04, 2013
Consistently offensive, and not in a way that should automatically be dismissed as 'edgy' or 'provocative'.
March 04, 2013
Underrated comic excellence from Sacha Baron Cohen with plenty of sharp satire lacing the broader gross-out gags.
May 03, 2015
Feels more like one of those lousy SNL movies from the early nineties than the work of our sharpest contemporary satirist.
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.'
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.
June 30, 2013
This comedy succeeds as a crude, inventive and humours look at a dumb despot.
May 03, 2016
The problem is that, unlike Ali G, Borat, and Brüno, Aladeen is less a force of nature than a scripted performance.
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 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 17, 2012
Now [Cohen is] turning material both fresh and rancid into tepid gruel.
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.
