I would give it three stars but the ending real didn't work Loved the production values And raymond Barry was awesome

So I thought was a real documentary and thought it was so insane. It was pretty crazy. Turns out, not real lol. I feel silly. I knew it was too crazy to be true. Still decent. But I feel silly.

This is a really good movie kept me in suspense & extremely disturbing to watch. The way they shoot the film through the eyes of the interviewer makes it seem like the confession is to you. The danger that surpresses after the confession just leaves wondering if there is still people alive that really know what happened.

Very well done flick! Just kept getting better and better. One I will for sure go back and re-watch.

Interesting fictional twist on the assassination of JFK.

The Blair Witch version of JFK. It's a little crazy, but not entirely effective because the concept goes from convincing to implausible.

Well-written, for the most part, until the end with the trip to Washington.

For me, "Interview with the Assassin" falls into that small category of movies that will probably inspire young filmmakers to shoot their own movies. "Sherman's March," "Tape," "The Gleaners and I," maybe a dozen others -- these aren't just indie films, these are individuals' films. These aren't low budget, but no-budget films, based completely on creative ideas and creative camera work. Almost immediately as the film starts, Walter tells the interviewer that he was the one who killed Kennedy. Like the movie’s narrator, we want to write Walter off as a conspiracy nut when we first meet him. Walter is a cranky, middle-age tough guy who lives down the street in a dimly lit house where the blinds are always closed. Walter’s paranoia is infectious. We are intrigued by his knowledge of the details of the events, and his seeming need to unburden himself. Suspense is built through all the things we don’t see. Someone was at the door just before we got home. Someone was following us, but we just missed getting their face on camera. “Assassin” creates tension from simple everyday artifacts, dialogue, and a sometimes very shaky handheld camera.

Nice handy-cam view which added to the documentary style of the movie. Voted good for being different…

I really didn't understand what the intentions of the filmmakers were in Interview with the Assassin. It was not convincing or substantive as a piece of fiction or even as a documentary. It doesn't even manage to sustain the audience's suspension of disbelief that it may actually be an actual account like the Blair Witch Project did so well. Although the concept is instantly grabbing and I wanted to like this film, I just got to the end of it saying "so what?"

Excellent movie, good acting and totally believable from beginning to end. This seems like it may have really happened, but the government had them make this documentary so the information is out there, but told them to say it is a fake documentary. That is for all the conspiracy theorists out there.

Blair Witch Project meets JFK. Burger uses low-tech, low-budget to his advantage in a movie thats really more about paranoia than a JFK conspiracy. The movie is played straight, with never a hint that it might not be a real documentary. We see everything through the eyes of Ron (played by Dylan Haggerty) an out-of-work camerman who falls into the story of a lifetime. Ron see-saws from belief to doubt, and back again just as I did while watching the movie. The casting is perfect. No one seems to be acting. Kate Williamson is especially convincing as Walters ex-wife. While I enjoyed the movie as is, Id love to see this movie remade with a bigger budget.

A brilliant debut picture for up-and-comer Neil Burger ('The Illusionist,' another great flick). If you're intrigued by anything 'Kennedy Assassination,' then you'd be into this. Any amateur filmmaker would to break onto the scene with something like 'Assassin.' It have one of those 'my heart just jumped into my throat with anticipation & suspense moments' that not many flicks can pull off. Loved all of it.

loved the concept....effective camera work and superior acting by Barry..this makes the film all the more believable and is a chilling variation on the JFK conspiracy

RATING (0 to ****): *** What did Neil Burger do before the magical celebration of cinema known as "The Illusionist"? Well, he did the completely different and perfectly-indie film "Interview with the Assassin", concerning an unemployed cameraman taking a job from an old man claiming to be the person who really shot JFK. Okay, so I'll continue to say that bad forensics led to all those conspiracy theories, but during the film this "assassin" manages to convince us that he isn't completely nuts and might actually be telling the truth- showing us some evidence in the locations themselves. But, of course, it's always a bad idea to buy a person like this a gun, as the cameraman does. It's also an even worse idea to buy it for him under [i]your[/i] name (as the cameraman does). Being that all of this is from the point-of-view of our protagonist's cameras, it's inevitable that we have some queasy moments, but being that his character is meant to be a professional we have plenty of steady moments and some fun scenes with a spy camera (as a side-note, this film might make you watch your mouth next time you're in front of someone with dorky-looking glasses). The best sequence, however, is shortly after the purchase of the guns, when the assassin and his army buddy shoot some cans. In a moment that's both scary and funny, our cameraman is shot at for no good reason. Also, since it's about a JFK conspiracy, this story inevitably has a conspiracy of its own going on, with twists and turns along the way. "Interview with the Assassin" is good, intriguing fun. MPAA: R (language) Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes (80 minutes of "real movie")

Heavily entertaining mockumentary in which an unemployed cameraman follows around someone who claims to have been JFK's real assassin- and for some odd reason, it seems believable for quite a while. While the sometimes handheld camerawork will inevitably induce headaches, the film's best scene occurs during a shooting range, when for no good reason the cameraman is shot at; it's both funny and scary at the same time.

Filmed in a mock-documentary style, this film is chilling, but more importantly, it is ambiguous. Which is fitting, since all the triangulation and single bullet theories are all about ambiguity.

Do not read too much into Burger's mockumentary; it's just having a lark, poking fun at conspiracy theorists, taking the piss out of the dozens of docs out there that present themselves as The Real Story About the Killing of John Kennedy. It never quite finds a way out of its own built-in dead-end.

So here's the deal, being a history student, I love the whole historical fiction genre. While the movie dragged a little, and the twist at the end was surprisingly unpredictable, it did however ruin the film. Throughout, the facts leading to the fictional tale of the assassination of J.F.K. seem some what feasible, however, this all goes to the shitter with the ending. Wish there was a decent quote to throw in here, but really, it wasn't that kind of a flick.

Going into this I thought it was an actual documentary, not a mockumentary. After a while I figured it out, but that did not stop me from enjoying this quite a bit.