It's just a shame Ritchie and Cohen knew all this stuff before they wrote The Dictator. It might be refreshing and fun to see Ritchie and Cohen try to brush the cobwebs from their childhoods and live in the present, instead of bewailing why they were never cool. The bad news is that all we ever need to know about the guy is that he's funny and charismatic. The good news is that, in The Dictator, we do get the chance to get to know Cohen. Will he establish a new career as a publisher and a major film critic? Or does he plan a new conservative political agenda? Or is he going to be a motivational speaker? But he barely speaks in The Dictator, and in Ali G Indahouse, we're not even given an opportunity to get to know the guy. Not that Cohen's release from jail is such a huge surprise we all know he's going to get out, right? I mean, he's a genius and everything. Cohen is the yob who, in a late release, lands in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Even if you don't, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (as Ali G) is the film's foremost protagonist. You may remember Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. If there's little original in the way characters speak and interact, there's even less in their way of life. Though the love story is compelling, the film's biggest drawback is the unoriginality of its insights about Pakistani-Australian relationships.
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