Rock the Kasbah

"Bill Murray’s becalmed music manager Richie Lanz isn’t the only person stuck in limbo in Rock the Kasbah, nor are the various Western dregs populating Afghani capital Kabul in the film. We’re talking a mercenary, prostitute, and a pair of arms dealers (Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride and Scott Caan respectively), on hand to provide a bit of colour in Barry Levinson’s fish out of water comedy."

"Laughs are few, attempts at feel-good catharsis fizzle out limply, and all of Murray’s most elaborate performance setpieces fall embarrassingly flat."

"Levinson never seems to know what to point his camera at, or when to cut, and Glazer never seems to know when to leave a joke alone and let the cast work."

"Clichéd, enervating, insulting..."

"There’s a special variety of infuriating that comes from a bad movie by talented people."

"Murray's one-liners just aren't enough to get this Kasbah rocking."

"An acclaimed film director, a legendary comic actor, lots of fun rock and pop songs, and a noble story at its core can't save Rock the Kasbah from being one hugely misguided dud."

"An intermittently amusing but dramatically problematic mish-mash that careens all over a rough and rocky road."

"Slight and sometimes outright offensive, though it’s also intermittently amusing and not entirely unself-aware."