Wanna be Roger Ebert and review Path 9-11 as pure film? THUMBS DOWN

[Armstead]

Here's my mini review of The Path to 9-11, setting aside my political biases and looking at it as a film on its own terms.

BARF!

It's about as entertaining as watching jumpy home movies of someone else.

The assholes who produced this piecve of shit are trying to be "cool" and they made the mistake of thinkling that jerky cameras automatically mean "verismillitude."

If you watched Traffic or a similar film, it shows that such techniques can be used to simulate realism IN THE HANDS OF A TALENTED FILMAKER.

But the clowns who made this piece of crap are BAD filmakers, who only succeed in being boring and giving the poor viewer headaches with all of the incoherent editing and jump cuts and jarring cameras and shouting. It's incoherent.

And NO sense of characterization. Who gives a daman about any of these people? You can't tell them apart.

And their attempt to manipulate emotions -- to make us angry at the bleeding heart liberals of the Clinton administration -- is just laughable. It's so transparent.

Watching a bad movie always makes one appreciate how hard it is to make a good movie. At least the Christian Clowns succeeded in that.

[mucifer]

1. Ebert is still out sick. Here is a ZERO star review from his newspaper

http://suntimes.com/output/elfman/cst-ftr-elf08.html#

Accuracy aside, ABC's '9/11' deserves to bomb

September 8, 2006

BY DOUG ELFMAN TELEVISION CRITIC
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I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store. I thought that was the definition of "interminable." I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future.

This is what happens during 4 1/2 lonnnng hours of "Path." Terrorists talk about killing Americans for Allah. FBI and other security officials try to track them but fail. 9/11 happens.

You don't say.

This is the most anticlimactic, tension-free movie in the history of terrorist TV.

THE PATH TO 9/11'

Critic's rating: Zero stars
7 to 10 p.m. Sunday and 7 to 8:57 p.m. Monday on WLS-Channel 7.





The review also goes thru all the lies and ends:

Scene: Agents complain Clinton is too caught up in the Republicans' impeachment effort to act against bin Laden.

Reaction: Citing the 9/11 Commission report, the Clinton letter insists that he and Berger told former CIA Director George Tenet to get bin Laden. "Secondly," the letter says, "Roger Cressy, National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism from 1999-2001, has said, on more than one occasion, 'Mr. Clinton approved every request made of him by the CIA and the U.S. military involving using force against bin Laden and al-Qaida.' "

Scene: Clinton's secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, is portrayed as giving Pakistan a heads-up about a U.S. air strike against bin Laden, allowing him to get away. The strike failed, and Republicans complained it was a political ploy.

Reaction: "It is my understanding that the notification to Pakistan was delivered once the missiles were already in the air," Albright says in a letter to ABC. "At no time did I inform the Pakistanis independently that a strike was to take place. The scene as explained to me is false and defamatory."

The 9/11 Commission report claimed the alert came from someone on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Scene: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Bush officials are shown taking no action at pivotal moments when terrorists may have been stopped.

Reaction: Bush officials have not complained to ABC.

Doug Elfman


:rofl:


it's not my review I couldn't watch this crap.

[Armstead]

2. I don't know why I watched -- I guess like rubberecking a car accident