Sun-Times TV Critic: ZERO stars for "Path to 9/11"

[wndycty]

Accuracy aside, ABC's '9/11' deserves to bomb

September 8, 2006

BY DOUG ELFMAN TELEVISION CRITIC

I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store. I thought that was the definition of "interminable." I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future.

This is what happens during 4 1/2 lonnnng hours of "Path." Terrorists talk about killing Americans for Allah. FBI and other security officials try to track them but fail. 9/11 happens.

You don't say.

This is the most anticlimactic, tension-free movie in the history of terrorist TV.

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THE PATH TO 9/11'

Critic's rating: Zero stars
7 to 10 p.m. Sunday and 7 to 8:57 p.m. Monday on WLS-Channel 7.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Not only is it factually bankrupt, evidently, it's bad TV as well...

If I were ABC, I'd destroy all copies of this turkey...:puke:

[Chimichurri]

4. what do expect when republicans are in charge.

[whistle]

2. I plan to see 911 Press for Truth which opens in theaters today

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Well, Well, Well

Another political hack goes to college on daddy's dime, inches his way through, now gets radical right backing. He makes a movie and it ends up being an amateurish pile of garbage.

Sound like anyone else we know?
The professor

[patricia92243]

5. When I saw a clip from it, my first thought was BORING. I'm not sure pe

people could sit through it long enough to watch the inaccuracies. They would be asleep in five minutes.

[mucifer]

6. Just be glad karl rove couldnt find leni riefenstahl and found some

talentless hack instead. Great review wndycity btw. Thanks for posting.

[hadrons]

7. Entertainment Weekly (I believe) gave it a "D" ....

the writer of the review made it seem like the Republicans look no better than the Democrats

[progressoid]

8. This is how they will justify pulling it.

Not because of our work pointing out their lies and propaganda but because of bad reviews.

[tridim]

9. The clips I've seen are all those bogus close-up w/ shaky camera shots

I've never seen a good film that uses that technique, but I've seen many bad films that use it for faux dramatic effect. It's a law of bad movies.

[pointblank]

10. Am I wrong..

or is Harvey Keitel in that piece of garbage?

If so, WTF was he thinking?...he is one of my favorite actors..I wouldn't think he would approve of soemthing like this.

[Nikki Stone 1]

11. Apparently he is, and I was wondering the same thing

Why on earth THIS movie?