InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Terrell Howell (KnightsofNi11) I learned an important lesson from Interview with the Assassins. If your elderly neighbor claims to have shot John F. Kennedy... run. Rob Kobeleski, the main character of this film, unfortunately didn't know that. Interview with the Assassin is about a reporter, Rob, whose neighbor, Walter, claims to have been the second gunman on the grassy knoll on that fateful day in Dallas back in 1963. Intrigued, Rob tries to learn more, but gets himself in over his head as a massive conspiracy unfolds around he and Walt, putting both of their lives in more danger than he could have imagined.The intriguing catch to this film is that it is all shot from Rob's perspective. Rob operates the camera and we follow the story along from his eyes and his vantage point. It adds a very unique allure to a film with an oddly compelling story. It makes the film a very interesting watch and it engages us in the story in a very different way. Of course, without this gimmick Interview with the Assassin likely wouldn't amount to anything, but that is usually the case with these kinds of films; see Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Project.Personally, I'm a sucker for these types of films. I haven't seen one in this style that I didn't like, and the same goes for Interview with the Assassin. It's a great little film that excellently blends suspense, action, and gripping drama. The story is one of those that makes you turn your head in confusion at multiple points, sometimes out of absurdity but mostly out of genuine interest in the bizarre story that unfolds in this film. There are definitely some odd and possibly unnecessary elements in the film, and the script falters at points, but overall this is a unique experience. Granted it doesn't amount to a whole lot and you can sort of see the climax coming, but for a relatively short film it's totally worth the watch.

tararella83 Interview with the Assassin. A masterpiece. I ordered this movie on Netflix after reading about Neil Burger and the Illusionist on IMDb. The plot intrigued me, as will it grab you. Walter is a 62 year old man, he's dying of cancer with only months to live and he has something to get off his chest before checking out. He enlists the help of his out-of-work neighbour, Ron, a cameraman with a wife and child. What he reveals to Ron is shocking. Walter, an ex-marine sharpshooter, says he is the man who fired the round that struck John F. Kennedy in the back of the head, killing him instantly. The man arrested and killed in jail before a trial was a patsy who also fired a bullet that morning, but did not hit the President. After murdering American Royalty, Walter just walks away, leaving Oswald to an undeniable fate. Walter claims he was hired by a man he was in the Marines with, and does not know where that man got the order for the hit, but it was high up. Someone powerful wanted JFK dead. Walter and Ron go on a trip to uncover the mystery as to who hired Walter for the shooting, and chaos ensues. One runs through a gamut of emotion while watching this movie. You go from the horror we all feel while watching our nation's most admired leader get his head blown off, to sympathy for the man who supposedly did it, to shock for the grisly way the film concludes. To me, Interview with the Assassin was in no way non-fiction. I could tell from the first lines spoken that it was scripted. I can't believe there are people who believed this movie to be fact, but that should not hinder you from ordering this movie on Netflix immediately! The bottom line is this: Oswald clearly did not act alone that day in Dallas, and Neil Burger explores that possibility intimately and keeps it most plausible. I imagine that someday the truth behind JFK's assassination will become public, and to those of us who have seen Interview the Assassin, it just wont be that shocking.

vchimpanzee Walter is 62 and has terminal cancer. He has a confession to make before he dies, and he chooses cameraman Ron to tell his story to. Apparently Walter fired the shot that killed John Kennedy. Ron and Walter visit Dallas to see where the event happen, and later they go in search of the truth ... but someone doesn't want them to know what really happened. Toward the end, things get interesting but ridiculous.Raymond Barry was very convincing, very natural as Walter. Most of the characters in the movie seemed like real people. The jerky, almost amateurish camera work made this seem like a real documentary. Nearly all of the film was told from the point of view of one of Ron's cameras, including security cameras at his house. It was a very low-frills production, with almost no music except for radios and background music playing in buildings.I'm no expert, but this seems like the sort of film that wins awards or at least gets nominated. If it had been a real documentary, it probably would have.

Onthethreshold 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.