SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

sol On the spot and thought-provoking documentary about the invasion and occupation of Iraq back in the spring of 2003 and how the muddle brained thinking of those in charge of that disaster came to their misguided conclusions in starting the war in the first place! With no evidence what so ever it was decided that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussin was a threat to Middle East as well as the world with his massive supply of WMD or weapons of mass destruction. This went as far as him being accused of having nuclear missiles that as British Prime Minister and Iraqi war supporter Tony Blair publicly stated can reach America's shores and major East Coast cities within 45 minutes after their launched!The scenario for the invasion of Iraq was in fact cooked up by the GW Bush Administration as soon as it took office in January 2001 some nine months before the 9/11 attacks! It was after the attacks of 9/11 that the wheels,in the White House State Department and Pentagon, went into motion in framing Saddam in him being ,together with El-Qeada chief Osama Bin-Ladin, behind those attacks! The hard hitting documentary "No End In Sight" shows how the Bush Adminisration went full tilt in getting the American public to support the war that it was planning to launch against Iraq in 2003 and even worst never bothered to listen to anyone in the know, the military and diplomatic corps, in what a major disaster it would end up being! Unlike Michael Moore's "Farenhite 9/11" "No End In Sight" is not a left wing or anti GW Bush propaganda piece but extremely even handed in its approach. We get to see interviews of some of the majors players in the lead up to the war as well as occupation of Iraq. Many of them now some four years, the film was made in 2007, after the war started have serious misgivings in them having anything to do with it. With no plans to set up a provisional government, made up of Iraqis, and by disbanding both Saddam's Baath Party and the some 500,000 man in tact Iraqi Army the country quickly fell into total chaos which overwhelmed the undermanned underarmed,in armored combat vehicles, US troops there who became sitting ducks to the thousands of Iraqi guerrilla fighters who were former members of the now disbanded and unemployed Iraqi Army! Who by the end of 2003 had killed and wounded far more US troops then were killed and wounded during the entire 41 day 2003 Iraqi war!By far the most shocking thing in the movie is how those who planned and executed the invasion and occupation of Iraq had no idea in what they were getting their country into. No matter how strong the evidence was to not invade and occupy Iraq, in Saddam not having WMD or being involved in the 9/11 attacks, the Bush Adminstartion from GW Bush on down ignored it and even fired those military and diplomatic experts who informed them of it! Yet at the same time when their plans were exposed as being based on faulty evidence they in turn turned around and blamed it all on their own hand picked "stooges" and "yes men" who only gave them that information in fear that if they didn't they'ed end up getting kicked out of their high position in the military and State Department!Like the title of the documentary now four years after it was released there's still "No End In Sight" to the mess that the US got itself into in Iraq with the new Obama Adminstration, that got in part elected by being against the war, still refusing to set a date for a total US withdrawal from that battered and war torn country that has already cost almost 5,000 American and well over 1,000,000 Iraqi lives! Like What the then and now deposed Egyptian President Muburac said, before the war started in March 2003, that the war will open the gates of hell in the Middle-East is exactly what's happening now! Ironically it's the present US financial debt crisis that more then anything will finally put an end to that endless and bloody conflict. By the US Government running out of funds as well as losing it's ability to borrow money from "friendly" country's like Communist China to continue it!

phd_travel This documentary focuses on the post invasion mistakes made by the administration and problems of occupation and factors leading up to the insurgency.It does a great job of putting together what has happened since the invasion of Iraq. I think it would have been hard to get a clear picture from newspapers and TV news. This is not a Michael Moore style documentary - it's less in your face but no less effective. There are interviews with many relevant people from the administration and Iraqis as well.A couple of small faults. A lot of information is given very fast. It's a bit hard to remember who is who. They should have left the names and designations of the persons a bit longer on the screen when the person is talking. A bit more background on the people interviewed might have helped the viewer understand what they are trying to put forth.A very well done documentary that should be seen by all. Makes one want to find out more about the situation right now in Iraq and what has happened to the people who screwed up the occupation. Also it makes one wonder what will happen to Egypt and Tunisia etc when power is being transferred to the new government.

bobm5508 This is an important documentary, that deserves a wide spread viewing by all Americans. It is an informative history lesson of the POST WAR missteps that sadly have our soldiers AND the IRAQI nation leading a frightening existence. The interviews with Iraqi citizens, their heartfelt loss of country pride and loss of any liveable civilization were heartbreaking to me.The director's take here is as on balance as it can get, knowing where we now stand. History is on his side. He has assembled the "usual suspects" of culpable parties - Rumsfeld, Cheney, the always distant George Bush and their dispatched diplomats. He chronicles the mind bogging, bad decisions, decisions made by woefully under qualified participants. The interviews of replaced diplomats are naturally the most damning, but do not seem like their agenda are misguided. The "Usual Suspects", as expected, refused to be interviewed.Many reviews here, and by major critics, depict those decisions and their devastating consequences. I will not rehash them here, and hope you watch this powerful movie.But, I have one nagging question. The "ousted" participants interviewed here seem to have had a good grasp on what needed to be done. Working against all odds (looted buildings, collapsed intrastucture, poor planning prior to their arrival) they speak about their slow but sure steps to reconstruction. Rumsford, Cheney et al picked them and put them in place!! What happened to shift them out of the picture so quickly?? Why did the administration feel the need to remove Jay Gardner (retired General with experience and in place) with an elitist, ex-CEO, armed with 2 devastatingly bad edicts??? I would have liked a bit more back story on how the change from humanitarian organization to the CPA came to be. With 200 hours of footage (I read somewhere), maybe that info can be addressed!?All in all, a must see. It is also a very valuable reminder that we have to pick our future leaders much better than this self serving mess of an administration!

virek213 When added all up, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and our current war in Iraq have likely inspired the greatest upsurge in film documentaries that has ever been seen in Hollywood. Whether they've been direct broadsides against Bush (FAHRENHEIT 9/11), the cynical manipulation of, and by, the media (any of Robert Greenwald's offerings), or entertainers slammed for speaking out against the war (SHUT UP AND SING), there have been some really thought-provoking and insightful films of this sort.Into this fray comes another great film of this kind, NO END IN SIGHT, a very sober and penetrating look by writer/producer/director Charles Ferguson as to how our Iraqi incursion, which was built by Bush and his supporters as a cakewalk, instead went south within a month of the invasion's commencement. Featuring interviews by many players who worked on the inside, including Richard Armitage, former deputy Secretary of State, this film shows the fundamental and obvious errors in judgment made by people in high places to not protect the most vital parts of Iraq as we were freeing it from the grasp of Saddam Hussein's thirty-five years of dictatorial rule. We're shown how Iraq's important museums, which once housed a great deal of the history of the birth of civilization, were either destroyed by American bombing or simply looted in the chaos that ensued. Just as embarrassing to watch is how large dumps of ammunition were left unguarded by our soldiers on the order of politicians and know-it-alls thousands of miles away from it all in Washington and allowed to be raided by all manner of insurgents, both foreign and Iraqi.Perhaps the least surprising thing about NO END IN SIGHT is the footage of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and others showing both their arrogance and incompetence for Americans and the rest of the world to see written in boldtype all over their faces. But it's there to make the strongest point of the film: they thought they knew everything, and it turns out they knew nothing--or, worse, they didn't CARE that they knew nothing.Campbell Scott's sober narration, plus numerous interviews with soldiers who have been and in many cases continued serving in Iraq, sometimes for as many as six tours of duty, all add up to a particularly unsettling viewing experience. But this is an essential film, an absolutely important film for anyone with an interest in seeing this war come to some kind of resolution to understand the dozens upon dozens of mistakes which our government, in our name, has wrought in Iraq.