In Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan , British comic Sacha Baron Cohen explored racism in America through the eyes of a racist and sexist immigrant from Eastern Europe, and he did a similar thing in the follow-up Bruno , only this time trekking across America as the gay Austrian fashion model of the title.
Now, in The Dictator , Cohen explores the world of dictators and power through the journey of Admiral General Alladeen, the tyrannical despot of the country of Wadiya, who comes to New York to speak before the United Nations. After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt by his right-hand man Tamir (Sir Ben Kingsley), he goes into hiding in Brooklyn, working for a liberal feminist grocer named Zoe (played by Anna Faris). The...
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