Rock the Kasbah

Rock The Kasbah tries many things without any sense of history, geography or, less ambitiously, irony. The furthest Rock The Kasbah gets towards stirring anything is Murray's thinning hair.

The film's biggest problem is not that it is offensive on many levels on multiple occasions, but that it is incredibly unfunny. None of Murray's rock bottom ignominy is amusing at any instance. Most of his dialogue seems to have been improvised on set, because it's so terrible you won't believe a major studio would have gone through the script and confirmed it.

While the film's basic premise is unusual and in parts interesting, it loses steam in the second half, with a fairly bland conclusion.

Rock the Kasbah doesn't really rock at all...

Bruce Willis steals all his scenes and is fun to watch. But it ultimately goes everywhere and nowhere.

The story never rings true, the antics are jaded and the performances – more than just lackluster- especially from all those heavy-weight stalwarts in the picture. The one person who makes a difference is Leem Lubany, who is refreshingly alive and sparkling with talent in a performance that gives the discordant, juvenile and unbecoming narrative some much needed excitement. It's quite a harried ride, this one!