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No End in Sight (2007)
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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
Genre: Education/General Interest
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... 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 candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency a --© Magnolia Films [More]
Starring: Richard Armitage
Starring: Richard Armitage
Director: Charles Ferguson
Director: Charles Ferguson
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson
Composer: Peter Nashiel
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
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Reviews for No End in Sight
As a CliffsNotes history lesson, Ferguson’s doc is a much needed attempt to uncover what happened; as a film, it’s a jumble of questionable choices.
Watching the film, which is well-organized but utterly artless, one wonders who, exactly, it's trying to sway.
Rehashes information you already knew and tries to inflate trivia into scandal.
A documentary that rues the fact that the US was not able to impose its will on the Iraqi people, but never questions the right to do so.
Bleak, dry and marginally repetitive, "Sight" fails to answer with clarity why bad decisions were made.
A tidy summary of the tragic mistakes made, and the brutal arrogance displayed, by the Bush administration in its prosecution of the Iraq war.
No End in Sight offers an emphatic, well-supported answer to a question that has already begun to be mooted on television talk shows: Who lost Iraq?.
[W]e need ... a multi-volume/reel history [of] the unprecedented stupidity and mendacity of the Bush administration, and Charles Ferguson's infuriating documentary could be volume one.
No End is Sight is the product of a calmly systematic desire for knowledge, and as such, does not offer solutions, only profound insight.
Want to kick start a drinking problem? Just give No End in Sight a look, and you're assured a cold, dark night ingesting anything nearby that will sooth the post-viewing depression.
will have you alternately slapping your forehead in stunned disbelief and shaking your head in disgust.
Organized, concise and plain as day, "No End In Sight" is necessary viewing for audiences the world over.
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