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The Path to 911
The Path to 9/11 was a two-part miniseries that aired in the United States on ABC television from September 10 – 11, 2006, and also in other countries. The film dramatizes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Release : | 2006 |
Rating : | 6.4 |
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Crew : | Executive Producer, |
Cast : | Harvey Keitel Michael Murphy William Sadler Frank John Hughes Shirley Douglas |
Genre : | Documentary |
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
While there may have been some parts that were questionable, there was far more truths than the parts that were Hollywoodized. The disclaimer though was inserted due to the pressure being put on Disney by the Clintons who were getting a taste of their own medicine along with their cronies.Funny how no pressure was put on Michael Moore's fictionalized pieces or how the viewers of this movie denounce it as right wing propaganda yet they embrace Fahrenheit 9/11 which was debunked in Fahrenhype 9/11 as being a bunch of left wing lies.This movie needed to be made though I wish they would've stuck completely to the truth so there'd be no question as to what happened and how the incompetence of the Clinton administration led to the event of 9/11. Use the official accounts from the "bi-partisan" 9/11 Commission Report. I would like to see a movie made about it more on a factual basis like Tora, Tora, Tora was to Pearl Harbor unlike that piece of trash of a movie Pearl Harbor which was by far, the worst movie made.
What it includes: A scene that never happened, of Clinton administration officials calling off a raid that would have netted bin Laden - fictional, according to the 9/11 Commission Report (issued by a Republican-dominated Congressional committee -- you know, the one before which Bush and Cheney testified together, both declining to swear an oath to tell the truth.) What it omits: A very telling scene that did happen - the famous anecdote from Ron Susskind's The One Percent Doctrine, in which a CIA handler who flew to Crawford to make sure sure Bush read the August 6, 2001 memo ("Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside U.S.") reported Bush's hostile response: "All right, you've covered your ass now." These two facts sum up all anyone needs to know about the integrity and agenda of these filmmakers.
This is a must see film, done extremely well, both in acting and directing. At the time of this writing, the film is rated a low 5.9 which I think has a lot to do with those who are wearing political blinders. Over 400 of them gave this film a one rating. Please. You may not like the movie's politics, but it is well made and NOt some sort of "right wing propaganda" film as some critics claim.Two of my favorite scenes involve the border agent who intercepts the terrorist trying to come into the country with a carload of supplies to make bombs and earlier, the tension generated by the scenes following the Muslim man opposed to killing innocent women and children, as he prepares to turn over the bomb maker from the first World Trade Center bombing. Are they on to him? Is he getting away with this? Its great suspense.Keitel is also terrific and well cast as the main FBI agent in charge and it was good seeing Dan Lauria in something other than a "dad" role. He was also quite effective.It's good film-making. And tells a story a good many of us lived through, but didn't really pay much attention to at the time.
ABC is a floundering network and people see this as an attempt to garner attention back to it. While those people may have a point, it is a mute one. "The truth has a certain ring to it." The movie didn't have to convince me that something was amiss in our government that led to 9/11, we kinda gather that assumption as individuals on our own... it happened. While there is nothing we can do to undo what happened, we should look back on how we came to "allow" one of the worst terrorist attacks in America's history to happen and to see what we should do so it never happens again. This movie allows the historical timeline of events to guide us towards how we arrived to a day so horrific. While critics and politicians are complaining that the film is not 100% "verbatim" on what the 9/11 Commission has published, it volunteers information from other sources that combine altogether making a hard film to dispute. I am extraordinarily grateful that this is not another crying fest about "that day"; out of the five hours, this two part film shows only a concrete 25 minutes of the madness occurring on 9/11. No one will ever think the same way after watching this film, regardless of it's 'accuracy'. They say the proof is in the pudding, and in this case the pudding isn't in the film at all; It's in the way the Democrats and Republicans complain about this film... they complain with such detail about particular instances! That through my mind, in the afterward, makes this one of ABC's finest contributions to television in a long time. The greatest perspective of this instantaneous classic is that this is a very human film in that humans make poor judgment... and sometimes they make poor judgments too many times in succession. Execution of this movie is flawless. Casting for this film was top-notch; led by strong willed Harvey Keitel is an ensemble of overwhelming supporting performances next to impossible to single out. The film's Editing, Cinematography, Timing, Set Design, Haunting Score, and pitch perfect directing make this film one of the two best I've seen so far this year (the other being "When the Levees Broke") This is one you can't ignore and shouldn't miss seeing. At most, this is only a comment based on one man's opinion. I implore you to watch, and see if you can honestly have a different opinion.