Should You See The Interview? A Few Considerations

The Interview, Seth Rogen and James Franco’s newly freed buddy comedy about assassinating Kim Jong Un is now available online. After weeks of being at the center of a controversy involving the alleged North Korean hacking of Sony Pictures, terrorist threats, and the sudden cancelation of the film's release to the public, the media narrative has finally settled back on to what it should have been about from the start: The Interview's relative merits as a movie.

So far, that assessment has not been pretty. The Interview currently has a 54 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes (that’s pretty rotten). But whether the movie deserves all the attention it has received, the hype is there, and movie watchers have a decision to make: Should I spend time on this?