Review of No End in Sight (2007) by Alastair W — 07 Jan 2008

War Documentaries: What are they good for? Absolutely everything, when they?re executed with such excellence as No End in Sight, the directorial debut from writer/director Charles Ferguson. This film is no Michael Moore editorial, but a series of eyewitness sources, most of which saw how the war was executed, not from their comfy seat in the White House, but in the dry, hot city of Baghdad, Iraq. By making the voice of the movie multiple voices, with a credible sources of information to form their opinions, this documentary is as moderate as possible, and offers insight into what steps the decisions of those orchestrating the War in Iraq took to make it one of the most unpopular and hopeless wars in American history.

It does not matter what political views you hold, this film is one that any patriotic citizen of the United States should see. With billions, even trillions of our tax dollars being spent on this war, it is ridiculous to no ask where it is all going and after viewing this film, you will know exactly where. It contains graphic footage of what our soldiers are going through on a daily basis right now, with interviews of multiple soldiers who have fought the war, giving a clear story of the happening in Iraq. A story free off all the political filtering we are getting from the big guns in the White house, all of which who denied to be interviewed for this movie.

Their absence speaks for itself.

The footage used for the film are not the clips you see being flashed on the news day in and day out, but first hand footage from Ferguson and his crew, who personally toured Iraq to capture what was really occurring. Heart-breaking, honest interviews of reporters and journalists from the New York Times and Time magazine who were there, and recount what they saw go on, and even a Baghdad citizen who lived through the U.S.?s invasion of Iraq provoke emotion from even the most politically neutral of us all.

The film will make you angry, frustrated, bewildered and depressed, all at the same time, a sign of a great film. Anyone could tell the story or Iraq and how it went wrong, and many have tried, but none can measure up to the superb way Ferguson told it: in a unbiassed, straight shooting manner.

Throughout the film, I felt like there was a strong liberal bias, but when it came to an end, I realized that an agenda of either side of the political spectrum would have been almost impossible to uphold, with all of the interviews taken from such a wide variety of people in such different walks of life. This film is a must for everyone; not to provoke, or to anger, but to enlighten and be made aware of what our government has been doing and is doing since our invasion of Iraq.