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No End in Sight (2007)

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Average Rating: 8.1/10
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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.

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Average Rating: 8.3/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 1

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.

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On March 19, 2003, forces from the United States and a handful of allied nations invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power. American military leaders expected the conflict to last no more than a few months, and President George W. Bush declared that major military operations were over less than two months later. However, Iraq soon became a dangerous quagmire for American forces, and near the end of 2006, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of America's strategy

Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Documentary, Special Interest

Charles Ferguson

Oct 30, 2007

$1.3M

Magnolia Pictures

All Critics (99) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (91) | Rotten (5) | DVD (5)

A tidy summary of the tragic mistakes made, and the brutal arrogance displayed, by the Bush administration in its prosecution of the Iraq war.

October 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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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.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
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No End in Sight makes one thing clear: Were it not so bloody, the war in Iraq would be destined to become a case study in the nation's business schools.

August 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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Even dedicated news junkies will gain new understanding of a campaign with no end in sight.

August 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Ferguson's case is so confidently built that it seems unassailable...

August 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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No End in Sight is the most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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There's no shortage of opinion, but what Ferguson is aiming for in this fascinating 102-minute dissection is a professional critique of foreign policy.

April 28, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
East Bay Express

A persuasive argument that the inception of, and response to, the Iraq War perverted America's ideals and intellect. Its moderate temperament hides obvious roars: Remembering outrage is all that will keep this from again occurring unopposed.

September 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment
Suite101.com

A thorough, level-headed examination of the Bush administration's failure to properly prepare for, and execute, the war.

August 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

It doesn't matter if you're a news junkie or clueless about current events, you need to see this movie.

June 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
Metromix.com

No End is Sight is the product of a calmly systematic desire for knowledge, and as such, does not offer solutions, only profound insight.

May 18, 2008 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
culturevulture.net

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.

February 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | Comment
Washington City Paper

a horror show guaranteed to make you mad

February 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

A remarkably cogent, still-appalling synthesis of the Bush administration's breezy, sloppy planning that led to the bloody disaster of today's Iraq.

January 19, 2008 Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Well-constructed and well-researched documentary which methodically lays out the groundwork for what went wrong in Iraq.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope

Watching the film, which is well-organized but utterly artless, one wonders who, exactly, it's trying to sway.

January 7, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment
MovieMartyr.com

Charles Ferguson's film may be the best, and the final word on the subject.

December 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

For anyone who's wondering why we're still stuck in Iraq, give this quick 100-minuter a whirl and get filled in.

November 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Window to the Movies

While this incriminating documentary makes a convincing case against the White House, it arrives a bit belatedly, at a juncture when John McCain is just about the only loyalist left still sipping the Bush Kool Aid.

October 25, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze
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Audience Reviews for No End in Sight

If all that is said is true, then this is like some kind of twisted Orwellian nightmare. It's Animal Farm all over again as a select few individuals make the choices. Terrifying in more ways than one, the film shows the disastrous war, planned out my money grabbing idiots. It's not just the dying soldiers/Iraqi

March 19, 2010
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March 28, 2008
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