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100It's the best made-for-TV movie in years.
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90A work as shapely as it is sprawling -- no small trick -- it renders the complex history that led to 9/11 with a ripping power that can at times feel overwhelming.
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80It is intensely serious, and seriously well done.
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80Powerfully acted, artfully produced and shot like a truly riveting page-turner.
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80The filmmakers' assurance makes this miniseries play more like bang-up drama than fact-filled documentary. Yet their facts pass informative muster, and emotional validity, too.
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75On a simple quality drama level, it's the best network miniseries in several years.
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70An unsparing, and at times hyperbolic, portrait of bureaucratic turf wars, buck passing and complacency.
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63Path sometimes feels like 24 downsized into The Office. [18 Sep 2006, p.39]
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63Too confused for a documentary, insufficiently dramatized for a movie, Path simply doesn't have the skill needed to support its intentions.
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40One could never call "The Path to 9/11 " poorly filmed and amateurishly acted. Just questionably written.
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40Earnest but scattered and a little plodding.
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40The six-hour film plays like a 9/11 version of "Syriana" or "Traffic," replete with ultra-close-ups and so much shaky, hand-held footage it can feel like being led around the world, half-drunk and half-blind.
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The results strain so hard to be objective and evenhanded that they're useless as drama. [8 Sep 2006, p.149]
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30"The Path to 9/11" never quite arrives at narrative coherence and depth.
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30The miniseries asks a lot of patience on the part of viewers and gives too little in return.
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"The Path" is an irresponsible film, with its factual distortions wrapped in a really terrific package that lulls viewers into complacency, setting them up for the propaganda that is to follow.
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20So much of the dialogue is just dull explanation, and so much of the action rehashes events that are already known. Worse, sometimes, it repeats itself.
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0"Path" is the dullest, worst-shot TV movie since ABC's disastrous "Ten Commandments" remake. It substitutes shaky handheld cameras and dumb dialogue for craftsmanship. It could not be more amateurish or poorly constructed unless someone had forgotten to light the sets.
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kater10truly excellent. Both parties look bad, but still most reviews are political.