Bill Murray is Richie Lanz, a down-on-his-luck rock manager in this comedy from director Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog). Co-stars Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Bruce Willis and Danny McBride.
When Richie takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, she gets cold feet and leaves him penniless and without his passport in Kabul. Trying to find his way home, he discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice and his last shot at creating an unlikely superstar.
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Bill Murray’s becalmed music manager Richie Lanz isn’t the only person stuck in limbo in Rock the Kasbah, nor are the various Western dregs populating Afghani capital Kabul in the film. We’re talking a mercenary, prostitute, and a pair of arms dealers (Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride and Scott Caan respectively), on hand to provide a bit of colour in Barry Levinson’s fish out of water comedy.
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Laughs are few, attempts at feel-good catharsis fizzle out limply, and all of Murray’s most elaborate performance setpieces fall embarrassingly flat.
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Levinson never seems to know what to point his camera at, or when to cut, and Glazer never seems to know when to leave a joke alone and let the cast work.
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There’s a special variety of infuriating that comes from a bad movie by talented people.
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An acclaimed film director, a legendary comic actor, lots of fun rock and pop songs, and a noble story at its core can't save Rock the Kasbah from being one hugely misguided dud.
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An intermittently amusing but dramatically problematic mish-mash that careens all over a rough and rocky road.
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Slight and sometimes outright offensive, though it’s also intermittently amusing and not entirely unself-aware.
Full reviewRock the Kasbah is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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