It was the most dramatic event of the decade and probably as significant in the history of the new century as the Great War was in the old one. So how was it possible to produce such an up-tight, self obsessed, bad movie about it. Oh sure, some the camera work is effective...tight, gritty images of bad guys up to no good. But it never really comes to-get her. We don't realize who these people are, why they're doing what they're doing or much else about them. Nor is the surveillance of them in Germany and the US ever clarified. Is the film sympathetic to Al Quaeda? Not really. But many will jump to that conclusion. We all know how events unfolded on 9/11. Yet in this movie they are muddled and confusing. It could have been so much better if it had also taken up the story of some of the passengers and some of those killed in the collapse of the WTC.
Review of The Hamburg Cell
