single most important movie about terrorists and counter-terrorists.

Rating: 10/10 (14 November 2001)

This is the single most important movie I have seen recently, and it illustrates with unbelievable parallels situations in the U.S. and Afghanistan since September 11th 2001. This movie is as impartial and rationally thought-out as every movie should be. Instead in Hollywood we get Pearl Harbor and The Patriot. And soon Black Hawk Down. That one looks like a downer already. Terrorists aren't mere mobs of fanatics who don't have anything better to do. The soldiers fighting them aren't a bunch of patriotic morons who got drafted as they walked out of a war movie. And this movie masterfully reveals both. The direction is superb, and the footage is incredibly convincing--so much that the movie opens with credits emphasizing that news footage wasn't used in the making of the film. But what is even more gripping is the imagery that is used before terrorist acts and military raids--men, women, and children, families, lives about to be destroyed. Don't blink. This movie has nothing to be missed.