Giant Robot Magazine
by Eric Nakamura, Giant Robot Magazine Patrick Epino’s first feature is ambitious and comedic and has been overlooked by the film festival circuit — especially the Asian American ones. Although it is not the greatest film, it is over-the-top hilarious as it both pays homage and pokes fun at pop culture. In short, a Saddam […]
Erik Todd Dellums
Mr. Sadman is an exquisite little gem of a film. Touching on notions of fluidity of identity, appearance, fame, objectification, direction and existence, Mr. Sadman, like Being There and Brother From Another Planet, is a gentle, funny and touching portrait of the desire for connection among human beings, to each other and most importantly to […]
Michael D. Caigoy
MR. SADMAN by Michael D. Caigoy, radicalposture.com, The Buffalo Beast “Destiny, destiny, protect me from the world.†– Radiohead, Anyone Can Play Guitar [FYI, I worked on this movie. Minor role, actually. Rather not talk about it.] For many, fame really has become a prerequisite for happiness. Americans are so saturated by the demanding mundanity […]
Asia Pacific Arts Magazine
MR. SADMAN by Jaime Mendoza, Asia Pacific Arts Magazine It’s 1990 in Baghdad, Iraq, before the first Gulf War. And there we see Mounir, a body double for Saddam Hussein, addressing a celebratory crowd. Dressed in Saddam’s trademark fatigues and black beret, sporting a mustache and holding a side arm, the people cheer at Mounir, […]
Brenda Greenwood
Watched my downloaded copy of this film today, and found it really good – quite sad, sometimes funny, but with a lesson for us all to learn. Here was a man, Mounir, sacked from being a Saddam ‘double’ (before he knew the evils Saddam had in mind), and wanting to make a new life in […]
LA Weekly
MR. SADMAN by F.X. Feeney, LA Weekly Saddam Hussein famously surrounded himself with identical doubles, to mislead potential assassins. In his feature debut, writer-director Patrick Epino poses the tragicomic question: What might have befallen one if he had been forced into early retirement, prior to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait? When Mounir (Al No’Mani, an […]
Frankom.com
MR. SADMAN by Frankom, frankom.com (a Kuwait-based blog) مع بداية عطلة نهاية هذا الاسبوع كتب (مارك) عن Ùيلم ذو ميزانية منخÙضة جدا ويمكن تØميله عبر الانترنت مقابل 8 دولارت Ùقط .. ÙŠØمل الÙيلم اسم (مستر ساد مان) Øيث تدور قصته عن Ø£Øد الاشخاص الذين كان يستعين بهم صدام Øسين قبل الغزو العراقي لدولة الكويت ÙÙŠ […]
366weirdmovies.com
MR. SADMAN by The Warden of Weirdness, 366weirdmovies.com WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST (of the 366 Weirdest Movies of All Time): More quirky than weird. There are some offbeat montages, including a nutty but oddly appropriate music video stuck into the middle of the film, but not enough to elevate it to true weirdness. […]