INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSASSIN
Movies function to create illusory experiences in the viewer. Interview with the Assassin was carefully crafted to make one feel as though one were having the experience of "watching a documentary". I appreciated some of the technical aspects of how this was accomplished. Trouble was, the filmmakers seemed to lose track of how well they had accomplished this goal. At several places the movie veers off into creating an experience of "watching an unfolding drama". I had trouble getting into the "experience an unfolding drama" part because the film did too good of a job of creating an "experience of watching a documentary". On the other hand the "experience of watching a documentary" was doomed to failure because the "experience an unfolding drama" kept intruding. Maybe if I had been in a different mood, these two concurrent experiences could have melded into a single good movie, but to me it just felt disjointed.

I gave this movie a rating of 2 stars.
Ron Boothe