Due to the controversial topic and the effects, threats, and actions caused by this movie, The Interview has quickly become well-known. A movie about North Korea, The Interview has caused the dictatorship to complain about its insulting content, and even go as far as to threaten any theater that would play it. As such, the movie was first available on digital platforms, like Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and a separate Sony website. It was released later in roughly 300 theaters.

The plot of the movie is of gossip-rag talk show host Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer, Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogan), are invited to North Korea for an interview. However, the CIA recruits them to assassinate dictator Kim-Jong Un during their visit. They obviously chose the wrong guys for the job.

The movie is primarily filled with crude sexual jokes, painful physical acts that are supposed to be funny, and comedic ranting about random topics, made by the two main characters. However, the jokes tend to be funny only half the time. There are a couple of funny scenes, but they are just funny by the sheer strangeness of the scenario.

The Interview also suffers from an annoying editing style in some scenes; actions will speed up or reverse and jump around while dubstep plays in the background. It’s irritating and a lot like dangling keys in front of a baby’s face.

The entire movie is like that. It has kind of an interesting topic but only barely holds your attention with its idiotic sex jokes, fake gore scenes, and some boring fighting at the end. I mean, the climax of the movie has Skylark, Rapoport, and a Korean traitor driving a tank, past a bunch of nukes, to shoot Kim Jong-Un in a helicopter. A huge mood swing from the comedy it was supposed to be; it’s very bravado and yawn-inducing.

In the end, The Interview had some interesting, if politically upsetting ideas, that didn’t turn out as expected. The amount of debate and rage this movie caused throughout the world built up a large expectation it failed to meet. It had some humorous scenes and they made Kim Jong-Un an interesting character, so it wasn’t terrible; it’s worth a watch if you’ve got nothing to do or watch on a boring weekend.