![]() ![]() The film is based on the story of Jay Bahadur, a young Canadian man who wanted very much to be a journalist but struggled to get a publication to buy his story ideas. "Dabka" is a true story about how a wannabe journalist's naivete and willingness to put his neck on the line paid off and made him a New York Times bestselling author. It doesn't always work, and the movie could have been 20 minutes shorter, but it's still a somewhat interesting glimpse at a foreign culture. The film seems to be trying for a mix of Salvador and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with many of the dangerous situations offset by humor. Pacino and Griffith have little more than cameos. Abdi, who played the lead Somali pirate in Captain Phillips, is also excellent as the cheerful local. Peters is good in the lead, a goofball who makes up in courage what he lacks in common sense. ![]() Also appearing are Coral Pena, Russell Posner, Kiana Madani, Maria Vos, and Philip Ettinger. Featuring Barkhad Abdi as his friendly translator, Al Pacino as a journalistic mentor, and Melanie Griffith as Jay's mother. ![]() Once there, he learns about the local culture while also clumsily causing havoc. One day he hits upon the dubious idea of traveling to Somalia, a very dangerous country where no Western journalists will go out of fear, and writing a book about the coastal pirates. This black comedy has twenty-something Canadian Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) with dreams of becoming a journalist but no clear path towards reaching that goal. ![]()
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