For fans of Cohen’s work, the UNRATED BluRay release is the definitive way to watch the film.
The Dictator is a sharp departure from Sacha Baron Cohen’s previous mockumentary style (Borat, Bruno). Instead of interacting with real, unsuspecting people, Cohen ventures into a fully scripted narrative comedy. He plays Admiral General Aladeen, the fearsome, narcissistic, and profoundly ignorant dictator of the fictional North African Republic of Wadiya. The Dictator -2012- BluRay UNRATED
The plot follows a familiar "fish out of water" trope: Aladeen travels to New York to address the United Nations, only to be betrayed by his uncle (Ben Kingsley) and stripped of his beard—rendering him unrecognizable. Lost in Brooklyn, he teams up with a free-spirited feminist grocer (Anna Faris) and a rogue nuclear scientist (Jason Mantzoukas) to reclaim his throne. For fans of Cohen’s work, the UNRATED BluRay
The famous scene where Aladeen orders a missile strike on his own people to solve traffic is extended. The UNRATED cut adds explicit squibs, slow-motion dismemberment, and a joke about "collateral damage" that was removed from the theatrical release. While the scene is absurdist, the MPAA objected to the tonal whiplash of cartoon violence meeting realistic blood spray. The famous scene where Aladeen orders a missile