Where have they been hiding this one all these years? It's just too real... I had to check it out on the internet to find out it is fiction! Being a real life news/documentary cameraman, I can tell you that this is totally convincing and compulsive. I happened upon it shortly after it was being screened and could not take my eyes off it. The reporter in particular is absolutely the real deal. I'm watching the screen thinking to myself "how come I haven't heard about this before? The assassin... who is this guy and how come I haven't heard about him before now?" This is definitely one for the DVD collection and definitely a one hundred percent MUST SEE BEFORE I DIE!!

The movie opens great, if a bit haphazard in its pacing. The suspense slowly builds up. The realistic, amateurish style is used to better effect than in Cloverfield where the idea of someone lugging an HD camera around with night vision was slightly absurd. At some point I noticed the movie was over halfway done and I was not yet caught up in the suspense. It was still kind of silly and I would have turned it off if I hadn't paid money for it. When we finally reach the "thrill," it's a predictable letdown. This movie does not excite the imagination, and the ending is satisfying to precisely no-one (maybe the directors were trying too hard to make it realistic by giving it a crappy ending). I won't spoil it here, but if you watch it through, stick around for the Animal House-esquire exposition in the last half-minute, which is laughably bad.

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.

Don't be fooled by the outline or tagline. This is a mockumentary, just to set your expectations right. I initially thought that it was a real documentary, with real, justifiable footage and interviews which will give the entire who-shot-JFK conspiracy a new spin. Sadly, it isn't, so don't get your hopes up too high.Walter Ohlinger (Raymond J. Barry) claims to have been the second gunman that faithful day in Dallas. Filmmaker Ron Kobeleski (Dylan Haggerty) interviews Walter, and thought that he had perhaps the most important scoop of his career. We follow Walter back to Dallas as he demonstrates exactly what he did on that day to the audience.Unfortunately, that's the good part. It goes downhill after that with Walter's account that his ex-Marine buddy and Commanding Officer had a role in masterminding the entire thing, and Ron and Walter go in search of that CO. But this mockumentary slowly takes a life of its own, and spins off into a thriller with a twist ending.The delivery's quite raw, made to look like a documentary, but knowing that it's all scripted, just makes it a bit of a letdown. You would be better off with Oliver Stone's JFK instead.This is a relatively bare bones Code 1 DVD.