Please don't spend money on this.

Overrated and overhyped

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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.

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

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.

This film can't help but make one think that perhaps there is such a person as the 'second gunman' still out there today, and that such a person could indeed come forward before their time was up to tell the truth. The film is exceptionally intelligent in this regard, however I wish it had been filmed in the more traditional sense. The use of camcorders pretty much throughout this film is certainly unique and not as bad as my heading might suggest, but to have made this a film in the traditional manner truly would've made it a 'chilling and terrifying' piece of work. Nonetheless, this is a movie that makes you think and proves yet again, that even 40 years later, the circumstances surrounding JFK's assassination still continues to capture the people's imagination.