Monday, November 11, 2013

Dirty Wars 2013

Dirty Wars     This film examines how the US is responding in a different way to international terrorist threats though the Joint Special Operations Command.  Jeremy Scahill is the author of an international bestseller, Blackwater and he is also an investigative reporter.  Many covert operations are unknown to the public and carried out by men that don’t exist on paper.  Their goal is to “find, fix and finish” their targets.  Drone strikes, home invasions, abductions and torture are used against their secretly selected targets.
     The story by this reporter seems solid enough and convincing but the flashy directing and editing make you think that this must really be unbelievable?  There is a mountain of facts and your mind doesn’t want to keep taking them in to reach the desired conclusion.  At the end of the film, you are still wondering true or false, real or fiction?  3* (This movie is OK)

86 min, Doc directed by Richard Rowley with Nasser and Saleha Al Aulaqi, Muqbal Al Kiazemi, Abdul Rahman Barman, Saleh Ben Fareed,  Andrew Exum, Abdul Ghafoor, Philip Giraldi, Matthey Hoh, Patrick Lang, William McRaven.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 6.9 out of 10, 82% critic 80% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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