will have you alternately slapping your forehead in stunned disbelief and shaking your head in disgust.
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
We need to hear the story again and again, for no amount of rage and disbelief can turn what the Bush Administration did into someone else’s problem.
Organized, concise and plain as day, "No End In Sight" is necessary viewing for audiences the world over.
The most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries.
A valuable summary of a variety of missteps that have led to the current debacle.
Rehashes information you already knew and tries to inflate trivia into scandal.
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?.
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.
The larger picture presented here will likely be old news, although it will jab the memory and still will shock.
Its message should be dispassionately studied by anyone who presumes to care about the future of this country.
Doesn't offer startlingly new information, [but] its calm, methodical presentation of the evidence is a solid contribution to...the American public's understanding.
So No End In Sight is hardly another partisan anti-war doc. Instead, it's a cogent, often infuriating explication of how the execution of the war went awry.
It's a furious, if quietly stated, indictment of the president and all his men in the debacle that our adventure in Iraq has become.
...words speak even louder than visual evidence in Charles Ferguson's lacerating analysis of America's occupation of Iraq.
...his [Ferguson's] brilliant and riveting documentary about the Bush administration’s failures in Iraq, is at once the most devastating cinematic postmortem on America’s colossal blunder in the Middle East, and the most sober.
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.
Ferguson's debut doc is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism.
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December 19, 2007:
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