No End in Sight
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Movie Reviews of No End in Sight
Movie Review: The Power of Delusion
Summary: 5 Stars
"No End in Sight" is a history of the US involvement in Iraq beginning with the Gulf War in 1991 and continuing up until the end of 2006. The interviewees and informants are former senior U.S. government officials, including Rich Armitage and Jay Garner, military and intelligence officers, soldiers, marines, and Iraqis from all walks of life. All senior Bush administration officials declined to be interviewed for the movie. The tone of "No End in Sight" is bleak; the music is appropriately funeral.
There's little that we haven't seen before in this movie, but its useful to recall how we got involved in Iraq. Reverse selection of brains for a thousand years could not have resulted in a bigger mess than created by Messrs. Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al. Perhaps the sub-title of the movie should be, "The Power of Delusionary Thinking" because the whole basis of our involvement in Iraq was due to the deluded minds of a few highly-placed US government officials. This movie brings that out clearly.
The most startling fact to come out of the movie is that the ultimate cost of the war is now projected at nearly 2 trillion dollars. Some elementary arithmetic establishes that our expenditure in Iraq will be about $80,000 for each and every Iraqi man, woman, and child. We would have had a better chance of success had we just dropped dollar bills instead of bombs. A disaster many times over, our most optimistic hope now can only be that the mess we have made in Iraq does not spread beyond its boundaries.
Smallchief
Movie Review: The first documentary that actually made me cry!
Summary: 5 Stars
Facts and figures can usually be overwhelming and dry as dust;but when they are laid out so explicitly and compelling as first time documentary film maker Charles Ferguson has done,then it is really tough to not want to cry as I did."No End in Sight" means exactly what it says;if the U.S does not leave Iraq a projected $1.860 Trillion will be spent on this "War" and who knows how many more lives taken.What I like most about this film is that Ferguson interviews those who were in key positions in the military during the initial push into Iraq.This is their story from their lips.These were people appointed by the Bush Administration to go in and "get the job done and leave." You will hear just how this did not happen,and it is sad and frustrating. It is significant for me to note that in order for those in The Administration to comment and be interviewed.....ALL DECLINED!
Is this just another documentary to be picked apart by naysayers? I heard Ferguson speak and he said " I made mistakes and I would have made many more were it not for two things. First,filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room) agreed to consult.And second, my crew taught me my job." If ever there is a more daring and compelling expose of the manipulation and mishandling of The Iraq War someone would really have to excel mightily in order to surpass "No End in Sight."
Movie Review: We just caused our future terrorist attacks
Summary: 5 Stars
After years of newspaper headlines about bombings, suicides, murders, looting and the general destruction of the country, I wasn't expected such a well-crafted and meticulously researched documentary to put all the pieces together. The movie never attempts to lecture its audience, and lets the interview subjects portray the situation from their own perspectives, which is rare for such emotionally-charged topics.
For me, the two most shocking scenes were:
1. The footage of the museums being looted - thousands of years of history about the first human civilizations are gone forever.
2. The random shootings by contractor's bodyguards, arbitrarily firing machine guns out of car windows at other vehicles.
Everybody should watch this movie - it's by far and away the most important film of 2007. Regardless of whether you're Republican or Democrat, it's impossible to see without concluding that the US government lied to its people, mismanaged its own army, and systematically destroyed post-war Iraq through lack of planning. Modern day Iraq is now being run by anti-US fundamentalist groups, its people hate Americans, and though there was no terrorism threat when we went into the country, there will be when we leave. And that's what $2 trillion buys you. Simply deplorable.
Movie Review: best iraq documentary?
Summary: 5 Stars
You probably won't learn anything new about the Iraq war from this understated documentary, nor should you expect any sort of neutrality. But the catastrophic consequences of the war for our country and the whole world make its chronological review of the basic facts worthwhile, while the cinematic power of pictures as compared to reading books about Iraq puts a very human face on the war. Director Charles Ferguson's film is a searing indictment of the recklessness, gross incompetence, and political cynicism of the Bush administration. He interviews soldiers, diplomats, Bush appointees, state department officials, and Iraqis, all of whom tell their personal stories about working hard at a noble cause only to discover that the emperor and his minions had no clothes and no conscience. Their sense of betrayal is heartbreaking. The film makes it clear that the administration's incompetence and hubris doomed their naive plan from the start, and that five years later there is still "no end in sight." Director Charles Ferguson is not your run-of-the mill film maker; he earned a PhD from MIT, founded and then sold his company Vermeer Technologies to Microsoft in 1996, was for three years a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and has been a visiting professor at both MIT and Berkeley.Movie Review: NO END IN SIGHT
Summary: 5 Stars
NO END IN SIGHT
The documentary history of planning for and fighting the war in Iraq. Told by insiders and advisers to Rumsfeld, Bush, and Cheney.
"All but 25 to 30,000 troops will be out of Iraq by August 2003."
- A Bush spokesman on March 19, 2003.
The persons appointed to handle postwar Iraq avoided expert advice and held to their ideological mission. They alienated the Iraqis and doomed the reconstruction process. The reaction of the Iraqi people became "Leave Iraq to the Iraqis". Basically, Paul Brenner, the Rumsfeld/Bush/Cheney man in charge, destroyed the government, the educational system, and the economy. He purged government officials who could have helped reconstruct the country. He disbanded all of the military and police forces - 500,000 became unemployed - many of which joined the insurgency instead of supporting reconstruction. This documentary follows the ongoing efforts to end the violence. The problems only get worse. Total economic cost of the war is closing in on $2 trillion. Who do you think is going to pay for this? Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Brenner?
And, there is "no end in sight".
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