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Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

ebubekirdogan02 This tv show is really telling us about American bureaucracy. Did lesson has been learned, I don't think so...! Jeff Daniels did great job again, thanks to him...!

garywbrown38 Great US series about the conflict between the CIA and FBI leading up to the 9/11 disaster.... Great leads and the story unwinds up to the event ....

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU The series is packed with action, suspense, and violence. It is centered on trying to understand 9/11 based on what was revealed by the various auditions and investigations afterward. But the film is very brutal as for the reality of the incompetence of both CIA and FBI, but particularly CIA, in dealing with Al Qaida and Muslim extremism and terrorism. The CIA knew about the attack, knew that some Al Qaida operatives were on US soil some fifteen months before the attack and taking flying lessons in many training centers, and this very CIA did not inform the FBI who could not intervene and arrest the said Al Qaida operatives. The series is brutal in its showing how the rivalry between these two agencies led to criminal attitudes that directly enabled 9/11 to be successful. The CIA, including in the post-attack investigation, kept their lies and stuck to a false version of what they had done, covering their back more than trying to bring the truth out. It is true the truth is that they were absolutely criminal and no excuse or penitence will erase that guilt. At the same time, the FBI was often brutal and in no way diplomatic or conciliatory. They love duress and use it all the time, including with top security personnel in top-secret meetings. That's always the result of some individuals who at times have been in the job too long.At the same time the series does not show as much and as well as necessary the monstrous imperialism to which the Islamic world is submitted, and as for that nothing has changed since 2001, far from it. It thus only shows the fanaticism and the extremism of the Muslims but not the exploitation, condescendence, and hatred it has to suffer from the West and in this case from the USA. Then the anger of these Muslims is not explained and it will continue recurring. All together this series sounds too often like Chopin's little dog running after its own tail. The main question though has to do with why Americans need today to go back to this episode of their history? It is obvious this episode was the last straw that broke the camel's back and, at times based on fake information and lies, the USA started sending troops everywhere in the Middle East: Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Syria, then Yemen, and some caress the idea of sending some in Iran and maybe Pakistan too. These wars have been going on for nearly twenty years, more than twenty years if we consider the first Gulf War. And it is still going on and there is no sign of an end. Recently the Americans have espoused and expressed the idea that they have to get rid of some leaders and regimes here and there. It is obvious that they had a far more far-reaching arm in the 1950s and 1960s when they got rid of Mosaddegh in Iran, Lumumba in Congo and so many others. Going back to these methods will not make the USA great again but it will nurture the hatred against the USA and the West for many decades to come. The series is interesting but at the same time, it does not explore the real problem of imperialistic policies imposed onto this region of the world by essentially one country with at times the opposition and at times the timid support of some allies. There is a lot to do in the future and learn for example that only Arabs speak Arabic from birth and that the majority of the people concerned in the Middle East speak Indo-European languages: Kurdish and Farsi for two simple examples.Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

uptnogud The American Security Officials portrayed include a three-timing, arrogant, spendthrift womaniser (Daniels), a cold, calculating psychpath (Sarsgaard), a robotic, calculating automaton (Schmitt), a venal fraidy-cat (Cancelmi), oh, and a nice,concientious whiskey-swilling Muslim. The Muslims are either clean, noble men of integrity or dirty misguided Jihadis who cannot read the Koran properly. It has to be explained to the Jihadis that Islam is actually peaceful...by the whiskeyed Muslim. He tells them that the at-Tirmidhi Hadiths are disputed, which is a lie. He get's them to read: "If anyone slays a person, it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people." which is not actually in the Koran. He tells Daniels the business with the 72 virgins is non-Islamic, blah-blah-blah. This show counts on the viewers credulousness and the many high ratings are testament to the incurious bovine nature of the reviewers. It's an obscenity that it portrays 9/11 as as much the result of a bumbling collection of mental illnesses as it was by an ideology that had then, and does still,seek to destroy the West.