Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
BruceUllm This picture was a waste of effort to produce and is a waste of effort to understand. The characters do not elicit any sympathy from me and represent nihilists and losers. If THEY can't have success, then NOBODY can. So, they join a so-called holy war and become terrorists. History is full of such fools who decide that all modernity is wrong simply because they can't or won't fit in.If this picture accomplished anything, it deepened the American suspicion of all things and all people from the Middle East. One minor and somewhat amusing thing I noticed: our main character never could get a decent shave -- even on the Big Day.
ericdetrick2002 I was waiting for a public service announcement at the end saying, "Terrorists- they are not bad people, just mis-informed". Ugh. You know, I am a well educated person; I am in no way "close-minded". Don't serve me a platter full of dung and tell me it is actually desert. I don't like it when writers and/or directors pull the emo trip on their audience, especially with this particular subject. Hitler was a bad guy, I don't see any films about him being mis-understood.These terrorists (and don't forget to call them what they were) were not mis-informed. Nor was this something that they did out of panic, instinct, or defense. This was one of the most well planned, and yes, thought out, murders in history. There's more blame insinuated on the American leaders then the terrorist (who are indeed made out to be martyrs). For a film maker to put out such a piece of propaganda, in hopes to make people understand what these poor mis-guided people had to go through, reminds me of why I own a DVD player- I don't have to worry about crap like this coming through my video monitor.On a technical level this film worked. In fact, if this tragedy had not happened, and this was just a story it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much. But I know the reality of this, and unfortunately there are people who are actually forgetting the truth and reality behind it. Film can do that. Which, is why i'll stick to my own viewing collection. What's on tonight's list...I think i'll watch "Cannibal Holocaust"...
siddiqui247 I saw this movie back in Dubai last year during its premiere in the Dubai International Film Festival.The thing I liked most about this movie was the fact that it wasn't biased towards a certain point of view, and even though I believe that you can't have complete objectivity in anything, I think this movie did a superb job in trying to portray the entire process of how those students became suicide bombers, which is something I'm sure people wonder about nowadays, especially in the west. At the same time, it also shows the intelligence mishaps that were played out by the US government before 9/11.What I found amusing was that the entire Arab audience that watched the movie was angry and started singing their song..."it shows all Arabs as terrorists...etc" whereas half of the other audience (non-Arabs) didn't feel it was like that at all, and naturally the entire audience ignored the actors and the producers during the Q and A session and started arguing amongst each other. Which basically shows how controversial this movie is and why it hasn't really been released yet. A shame really. I think the American audience (and the rest of the world) could use a little more light on the incident.In conclusion, I hope it can be released soon so I can own it on DVD asap. It's definitely worth watching again and again.
rps-2 It was the most dramatic event of the decade and probably as significant in the history of the new century as the Great War was in the old one. So how was it possible to produce such an up-tight, self obsessed, bad movie about it. Oh sure, some the camera work is effective...tight, gritty images of bad guys up to no good. But it never really comes to-get her. We don't realize who these people are, why they're doing what they're doing or much else about them. Nor is the surveillance of them in Germany and the US ever clarified. Is the film sympathetic to Al Quaeda? Not really. But many will jump to that conclusion. We all know how events unfolded on 9/11. Yet in this movie they are muddled and confusing. It could have been so much better if it had also taken up the story of some of the passengers and some of those killed in the collapse of the WTC.
