Film Review – Rock the Kasbah

“Rock the Kasbah” is reminiscent of the horrible 2006 comedy, “American Dreamz,” which attempted to blend jazz-hands satire with profound Middle Eastern war zone woes, ending up shrill and disastrously unfunny. “Rock the Kasbah” isn’t as broad, but it shares a fruitless determination to turn a volatile region into big screen joy, trying to overcome real-world threat without actually thinking tonality through. It’s a mess of a movie, overlong and undercooked, almost entirely reliant on star Bill Murray to crank up his cocktail-hour charms and save the day while the production slumps from one scene to the next. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com