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09/25/04
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September Tapes (2004)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:7
Rotten:27
Average Rating:3.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: An incredible achievement, SEPTEMBER TAPES chronicles one man's attempt to find notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Don Larsen is the man responsible for the filming; an intrepid... [More]
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07/21/05
It's riddled with stilted voice-overs and eye-rollingly awful dialogue.
09/25/04
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12/06/05
Maybe Mr. Johnston ... intended this to be a guessing game. But the method robs the real encounters of their power and, even more important, trivializes the subject.
09/23/04
An underwhelming execution of an interesting concept.
09/24/04
There is a reason everyone is calling this The Osama Witch Project - it's pretty hard to swallow this one - no matter how 'true'.
09/10/04
Little more than war porn.
09/09/04
Top CriticIt’s jingoist machismo disguised as deep insight.
01/24/05
The movie's heart is in the right place, but it looks and sounds regrettably bogus.
09/23/04
Finally, there are no truths, higher or lower, in September Tapes...just a lot of din.
10/06/04
While the documentary footage ... is powerful, it's often undermined by the fact that you know there is deep contrivance at work.
09/22/04
There's something deeply unseemly about this picture even though, within the limitations of the method, it's well executed.
09/12/04
Others pay the price for a macho man's posturing in this unflattering picture of American arrogance and lust for revenge.
09/13/04
Herky-jerky ripsnorter.
09/23/04
Top CriticAlternating between the despicable and the inept and sometimes capturing both in a single moment, September Tapes is a craven attempt to cash in on the 9/11 tragedy.
09/24/04
The whole notion of exploiting a war and its victims to shoot a commercial feature is reprehensible.
09/24/04
Top CriticAfghanistan shouldn't be used as a backdrop for some director's selfish attempt at provocation.
09/24/04
It's hard to make a case for an American film that intentionally mixes fact with fiction when the facts concerning 9/11, the Taliban and the fate of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are already so elusive.
09/24/04
Squanders incredible verisimilitude by undercutting it with credibility-defying storytelling.
09/24/04
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