Bit Of A Rant!

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2013)

Firstly I have to say that I believe that Bob Dobson's one star rating of this film (that for some reason ,at the time of writing, occupies top spot in terms of reviews) may be based on (to paraphrase a moron) "the classic dim witted American "misogynist with a chip on his shoulder" view of life!"This idiot can't even reconcile the fact that some western translations of the guy's name call him Usama rather than Osama.I'm guessing if Fox News doesn't verify it for him he doesn't understand it.Honestly, check his review, he simply can't comprehend why they call him UBL in the film and simply doesn't possess the curiosity or more likely intellect to even investigate further via the dark and mysterious portal into what us Liberal's like to call "knowledge" that is Google!
Putting my initial rant aside, I found this to be an intelligent and understated portrayal of a subject that could so easily have been handled in a crass and jingoistic manner by a lesser director. God know's I've seen enough adverts for film's loosely based on the same material, all of them seeming to resemble "Call Of D..." sorry I mean "Act Of Valor" type Gung Ho fest's designed to make the cerebrally challenged amongst us whoop and holler as the bullets reign down and the eyelids droop.
As an historic document of what probably happened this film is surely a triumph.It doesn't tackle the reasons that 9/11 happened in the first place( Come on Americans do you think people would do that without you REALLY pissing them off first?) but then it was never meant to.At least it was honest about what very likely happened in the aftermath (P.S. I was very drunk when I wrote this!(But I still stand by it!)