Fresh
At film's end, you'll probably feel like having a long, hot shower, metaphoric or otherwise, to wash away the mire Brugger has presented.
James Adams, Globe and Mail
The Ambassador
To Break The Story, He Must Become The Story
2011 · 1h 33m
Documentary, History
Directed by
Mads Brügger
Overview
Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[Brugger] returns with a jaw-dropping expose of postcolonial corruption; he's lucky he returned with his head.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
You can imagine how this could have become a 1950s British comedy. It is all real.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
'The Ambassador" is a sociopolitical prankumentary in which the prank blows up in the filmmaker's face, exploding-cigar style.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Rotten
The picture sometimes seems to have been assembled rather than creatively edited.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
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