A thorough, level-headed examination of the Bush administration's failure to properly prepare for, and execute, the war.
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08/10/08
No End in Sight (2007)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 89 Fresh: 84 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Consensus:
Charles Ferguson's documentary provides a good summary of the decisions that led to the mess in post-war Iraq, and offers politically interested audiences something they'd been looking for: a lowdown on the decision making.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 27, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $1,250,100
Synopsis: The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Richard Armitage
Director: Charles Ferguson
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson
Composer: Peter Nashiel
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson
Composer: Peter Nashiel
Reviews
It doesn't matter if you're a news junkie or clueless about current events, you need to see this movie.
06/24/08
No End is Sight is the product of a calmly systematic desire for knowledge, and as such, does not offer solutions, only profound insight.
05/18/08
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04/21/08
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04/07/08
By the time No End in Sight gets to a late chapter titled "Things Fall Apart," you'll believe that call could have been made a long time ago.
02/29/08
Well-constructed and well-researched documentary which methodically lays out the groundwork for what went wrong in Iraq.
01/11/08
Watching the film, which is well-organized but utterly artless, one wonders who, exactly, it's trying to sway.
01/07/08
Charles Ferguson's film may be the best, and the final word on the subject.
12/13/07
For anyone who's wondering why we're still stuck in Iraq, give this quick 100-minuter a whirl and get filled in.
11/25/07
Bleak, dry and marginally repetitive, "Sight" fails to answer with clarity why bad decisions were made.
10/21/07
The most important film of the year thus far and, more significantly, the most comprehensive, clear-eyed account of the Iraq debacle and the arrogance behind it that we have.
10/16/07
A tidy summary of the tragic mistakes made, and the brutal arrogance displayed, by the Bush administration in its prosecution of the Iraq war.
10/05/07
It's a film that only begins to take baby steps in telling what went wrong and how insane it is to stick with such a bad war policy.
09/22/07
...a movie that will make you angry or sad. It provides no escape or transport from, but rather deeper engagement with, the regrettably real world.
09/21/07
Ferguson consults not the administration's political opponents, but the very experts that the U.S. government selected and sent into the Baghdad fray ...
09/20/07
This is a movie about the very officials who boasted 'I don't do quagmires' (then-defense secretary Rumsfeld), but who hadn't actually done the planning or simple reading of other people's plans that might have avoided that very fate.
09/13/07
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