Movie Review

Fact: Steve Buscemi is talented, what with a resume that reads like a roll call for Oscar nominations (see: Mr. Deeds, Big Daddy, Billy Madison, and most every Adam Sandler movie ever made). I think his acting stands alone and needs no defending, but in case you had forgotten, he was also in: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Airheads, Fargo, Con Air, The Big Lebowski, and many more. [I know this makes me appear as straight as a two dollar bill, but I don't care.] It's no surprise that when he releases a new project, it catches my attention and I have to refrain from tugging on myself. Enter Interview (2007), an independent project that he wrote, directed, and starred in.

The movie is about an interview that takes place between a political reporter on the down slope of his career (Buscemi) and a popular actress that struggles to be taken seriously. The actress is played by Sienna Miller, which confirms the blatant fact that Jude Law is a homosexual (as he left her for their nanny). I figured the only thing that I was risking was 84 minutes of fawning over Miller, if the movie sucked. I did a quick risk/reward analysis and realized I don't do a damn thing on a hungover weekend afternoon as it is, so it really was not a difficult choice. My greatest fear was that it was 84 minutes of an interview, which materialized, but there are many different nuances that this movie attempts to address - the relationship between the interviewer/interviewee, judgments (gone wrong), and ultimately the power dynamic between someone asking and another answering questions. It's fairly interesting, and if you have a cock, you've definitely got time for this movie. I wouldn't say it's on par with other movies touting Buscemi, like Armageddon, but not much is. There's a nice little twist at the end, which is all too apparent as the viewer realizes by the time it happens. Did I mention Sienna Miller is in this movie?