2015 Directed by Barry Levinson
A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.
Bill Murray Zooey Deschanel Bruce Willis Kate Hudson Taylor Kinney Danny McBride Scott Caan Eugenia Kuzmina Sarah Baker Leem Lubany Avery Phillips Megan Raich Jonas Khan Arian Moayed Fahim Fazli Sameer Ali Khan Beejan Land Husam Chadat Kelly Lynch Glenn Fleshler Fatim Zahra El Hassani Hassan Bouayad Sebastien Collineau Hamdane Mohamed Habib Azeddine Benamara Mohamed Boussalem Mansour Badri Kamel Kenzo Yassir Semlali Show All…
Brian Grazer Mitch Glazer Tom Ortenberg Steve Bing Bill Block Ethan Smith Jacob Pechenik Anton Lessine Sasha Shapiro Peter Lawson Marsha L. Swinton Tom Freston Iakovina Petsenikakis Iakovos Petsenikakis
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For the first two acts of "Rock the Kasbah" I was saying to myself this is a mildly entertaining, occasionally funny, and enjoyable time despite its tonal issues and numerous plot holes. The third act of this movie however causes it to plummet way down. It's stupid, boring, goes on for way to long, and makes very little sense. It's a shame to because I actually wasn't minding this movie for a while.
Barry Levinson, what have you done? You've brought us a film with our king of cinema Bill Murray and it is absolutely worthless! There's nothing worthwhile in this film, it honestly feels as if Levinson took some Bill Murray singing gag from another of his films and stretched it to a 100 minute film. The story was absolutely atrocious, and the "comedy" was just horrendous.
Honestly, who knew that someone could make Bill Murray so boring? You can really tell that he's trying his hardest, and as much as I love you, Bill, this film is far, far far beneath you. There's absolutely no chemistry present between any of the actors, there are way too many convenient plot holes, and…
Offering harmless and forgettable entertainment from a pedigree that should be good for more than that, Barry Levinson's "Rock the Kasbah" stars Bill Murray in an Afghanistan-set comedy about star-making. Murray mugs as a music producer whose track record has soured in a film that blends "American Idol" with the nightly news to mediocre effect.
Revolving around Murray's washed-up, wannabe hit-maker, "Rock the Kasbah" finds the music producer in war-torn Afghanistan promoting an artist who does not pan out. He does, however, find a local singer with a voice worth fighting both residents and aliens for over a shot to be put on an Afghani singing competition.
It takes some time for the story to click, but the characters and…
This should've been a Bill Murray-Zooey Deschanel buddy movie. Maybe then it would've had a lifeline and not be so dull. It could still include the Afghan Star plotline but why not bring along Deschanel for the ride, instead of forgetting about her character. It's just one of a handful of things introduced and then left behind in this movie.
Bill Murray has managed to earn a fair bit of good grace from most cinema fans with a slew of iconic performances that have made him a cult favourite for many. Groundhog Day, Lost In Translation, Scrooged, Rushmore, and even Kingpin, left us with memorable over-the-top performances and characters that have stood the test of time. His work for Wes Anderson too introduced him to a younger audience, but in recent years the hits have dried up and his choice of roles have been suspect to say the least. Unfortunately this is another one.
Murray plays a has-been rock manager who takes his last remaining act to Afghanistan for a payday. When things quickly go awry and his singer Ronnie,…
7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Loft and Unfinished Business are both at 11%. The Boy Next Door is at 10%. Fant4stic is at 8%.
Rock the Kasbah is lower than all of that. Why? Even on Letterboxd it's getting maimed.
I really don't get it. This was just fine. It's a movie about Bill Murray getting lost in Afghanistan because he was dicked over by Zooey Deschanel and Bruce Willis. Then he runs guns with Danny McBride and Scott Caan and helps break down barriers for women on TV in the country. He just makes some friends along the way and has an adventure while boning Kate Hudson who lives in a trailer in the desert with a line of…
Bill Murray plays a music manager whose fate brought him to Kabul, Afghanistan. There he ends up discovering a marvelous voice in a girl who is not allowed to sing. Sounds much more interesting that what it is, unfortunately, the film tries to bring the comedy out of everything when it is unasked for. It's a screenplay that doesn't work well with Bill Murray and that shows on his acting, which feesl stiff and more like an imitation of Murray than Murray himself.
Offensive culturally.
Offensive in its waste of cast.
Offensively ugly to look at.
Offensive.
Barry Levinson has really lost his touch. He hasn’t made a good film in 20 years, and this half-burnt offering is no different. To miss the mark with Bill Murray as your lead is extremely difficult. The man is one of the most natural deliverer of lines ever, with what has seemed like an ability to turn almost any script into gold. Well, maybe he was just really good at choosing scripts, in the past. Can’t say the same for this.
With what comes across as an underdeveloped music agent version of Levinson’s own film, Jimmy Hollywood (a cult classic in its own right — I’ve probably seen it a hundred times, and both Pesci and…
Some nice Kate Hudson cleavage is actually shown a few times. I can say Thumbs Up for that, but otherwise Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I like a lot of things about Rock the Kasbah but it doesn't really come together as a movie. The script is so horribly inconsistent and characters fall in and out so frequently it seems like a bunch of SNL skits. Bill Murray is amusing enough but has trouble carrying it on his old man back.
Completely forgot Bruce Willis was even in this. And for good reason.
Initially wasn't minding it at first with my morning coffee. My first trip back since its initial run at the movies with a mate.
But then, once Zooey Deschanel (who possibly did it during a lunch break on New Girl) departs and leaves Bill stranded does the mediocre flick I'd remembered it being come flooding back to me. And no one could salvage it. Not even usually reliable's like Danny McBride.
Does have a decently random soundtrack though. You could play a game of trying to guess what will be randomly shuffled onto the playlist. You'll be cheating if you say Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, however.
Happy Birthday Kate Hudson. You were in it a lot more than I remembered. That's not a diss. Merely an observation.
