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Meeting Resistance
  • Release Date: Oct 19, 2007
Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Joe Garofoli
    75
    Worth the effort.
  2. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    70
    It provides a more detailed and perhaps more reliable picture of the early movement's motives and practices than anything I've seen in the mainstream media.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    50
    While no doubt a contribution in terms of historical record, the 2003-2004 timeline of the movie makes it feel out of date. This offers perspective on the insurgents then, but leaves the viewer wondering what they would be thinking and saying four years later.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Less a documentary than an unshaped document, this haphazard collection of interviews with Iraqi insurgents is both enlightening and frustrating.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Anthony Kaufman
    50
    Ultimately, Meeting Resistance is just one more doc about the monumental screw-up that is the U.S. campaign in Iraq.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    50
    Meeting Resistance in theory should have been a revealing documentary. In truth, however, the measures taken to protect the informants' identities dilute the potency of their statements and diminish the film's efficacy as a historical document.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    50
    Proves a welcome addition to the growing body of films on Iraq, but ultimately promises more than it delivers.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    40
    Many interviewees concede that the resistance is both disorganized and decentralized, and imply that some of the fighters are ethnic partisans jockeying for a slice of what will remain should the United States pull out.
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  1. RogerC.
    9
    If you care about current events, check out this unique documentary. The filmmakers risked their lives to get this footage.