Apart from some fairly good acting (from the non-lone gunman from the grassy knoll who pops up, cancer-ridden, to give a last confession), this movie sucks bad. First & foremost, this thing IS a movie, but you won't get this info from the movie makers, who deliberately hide that fact, presenting a documentary, for all intents and purposes. Even the end credits collude in this egregious fiction by stating that the camera guy, imprisoned at the very end, died of "multiple stab wounds" in the slammer. Oh yeah, and the bullet shell "disappeared", once it was taken into custody by the police. Maybe it's just me (?), but I think this film should make it clear, upfront, that it's *deliberate* fiction, masking itself as documentary-style reality. It seems completely unethical to do otherwise. It's hidden because maybe then we'd all realize what a tedious time-waster this thing is. It also ends up making Real conspiracy data seem frivolous, indeed. One almost wonders: was the CIA behind this piece 'o schlock? Or maybe it's more about the filmmakers being ridden with quite pretentious notions of "truth" and "reality", who get their kicks pulling the wool over our collective eyes because, to them, doing so is a big deal of artful artifice, instead of the cheap, stupid trick it ends up being.
Review of Interview with the Assassin
