Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

johnnysaunderson Where have they been hiding this one all these years? It's just too real... I had to check it out on the internet to find out it is fiction! Being a real life news/documentary cameraman, I can tell you that this is totally convincing and compulsive. I happened upon it shortly after it was being screened and could not take my eyes off it. The reporter in particular is absolutely the real deal. I'm watching the screen thinking to myself "how come I haven't heard about this before? The assassin... who is this guy and how come I haven't heard about him before now?" This is definitely one for the DVD collection and definitely a one hundred percent MUST SEE BEFORE I DIE!!

M. J Arocena Raymond J Barry carrying his paranoia like a badge of honor takes us for a extraordinary ride of the creepiest kind. Feeding into our own fascination with all the conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination. Neil Burger brilliantly concocts a mock documentary that feels truer than most real documentaries and I was taken in, totally. I felt as eager to get to the mysterious John Seymour as the interviewer - a splendid Dylan Haggerthy -. The interview of the assassin's ex wife, played chillingly real by Kate Williamson, is a little gem on its own and the performances, if you can call them that, are uniformly startling, embedded in that, clumsy but undeniable truth that only non professional actors are capable of. Recommended for Unsolved Mysteries junkies as well as for film lovers everywhere

tararella83 Interview with the Assassin. A masterpiece. I ordered this movie on Netflix after reading about Neil Burger and the Illusionist on IMDb. The plot intrigued me, as will it grab you. Walter is a 62 year old man, he's dying of cancer with only months to live and he has something to get off his chest before checking out. He enlists the help of his out-of-work neighbour, Ron, a cameraman with a wife and child. What he reveals to Ron is shocking. Walter, an ex-marine sharpshooter, says he is the man who fired the round that struck John F. Kennedy in the back of the head, killing him instantly. The man arrested and killed in jail before a trial was a patsy who also fired a bullet that morning, but did not hit the President. After murdering American Royalty, Walter just walks away, leaving Oswald to an undeniable fate. Walter claims he was hired by a man he was in the Marines with, and does not know where that man got the order for the hit, but it was high up. Someone powerful wanted JFK dead. Walter and Ron go on a trip to uncover the mystery as to who hired Walter for the shooting, and chaos ensues. One runs through a gamut of emotion while watching this movie. You go from the horror we all feel while watching our nation's most admired leader get his head blown off, to sympathy for the man who supposedly did it, to shock for the grisly way the film concludes. To me, Interview with the Assassin was in no way non-fiction. I could tell from the first lines spoken that it was scripted. I can't believe there are people who believed this movie to be fact, but that should not hinder you from ordering this movie on Netflix immediately! The bottom line is this: Oswald clearly did not act alone that day in Dallas, and Neil Burger explores that possibility intimately and keeps it most plausible. I imagine that someday the truth behind JFK's assassination will become public, and to those of us who have seen Interview the Assassin, it just wont be that shocking.

schlomothehomo This film had a really good premise - the presentation of a fictitious (to some of the viewers out there : yes, FICTITIOUS!) story within a factual-like packaging. This is something that Michael Crichton has done in his books in the past in titles such as "Eaters of the Dead" and "The Great Train Robbery". When done well, as Mr Crichton did, this technique can make an otherwise ordinary or even boring story great. I thought that this was what "Interview with the Assassin" was going to do.The film started out well and the performances were good - Raymond J. Barry was particularly well-suited to his role. Later, though, it began meandering and in the end, became little more than just another Hollywood mass-produced flick. I wished that the director would have been a little bit more consistent in his vision. What did he want the movie to be? A documentary (albeit a fictitious one) or just a standard thriller? In the end, unfortunately, he took the latter route.Documentaries which examine things in real life usually do not have a beginning, middle, and end - life is just not this tidy. This movie, however, does have a beginning, middle, and then a neat little resolution of things in the end. Movie goers can then dust the pop-corn off of their chests and return once more into the grind.In short, "Interview with the Assassin" was a movie which could have been something new and exciting but instead ended up being something old and mediocre. As a documentary, it is not very believable (at least to me it wasn't.....), and, as a thriller, it is not very good.