Is there a direct connection between 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, Hitler, Gary Cooper, George Bush, shock and awe, condoms and toasters, shopping, and the fall of the Soviet Union? These filmmakers think so.
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05/15/07
Hijacking Catastrophe (2004)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 15 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Runtime: 68 mins
Synopsis: Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Reviews
1 - 18 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
[I]n our toxic media environment... Hijacking Catastrophe becomes even more vital for anyone who considers himself informed on current events...
01/12/05
An intellectually steelier case against Bush, his cabalistic administration and the Iraq war than Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
10/21/04
The most outspoken and yet in some ways the calmest of the new documentaries opposing the Bush presidency.
10/15/04
Top Critic
Although the positions are by now familiar, especially for those who have seen the previously released films on the subject, there's enough solid and persuasive analysis here to give this effort a fresh urgency.
09/22/04
Top Critic
Serious, sober, even chilling, and answers the question of why the U.S. went to war in Iraq better than any other recent film or television show on the subject.
09/18/04
This hard-hitting documentary criticizes the macho underpinnings of an American foreign policy based on military prowess to establish global dominance.
09/12/04
There's really nothing new here ... and lacking the drama and humor of Fahrenheit 9/11, it is even more likely to be preaching to the converted.
09/10/04
There's nothing like facts to prosecute a case, and this documentary about the Bush administration's pre-9/11 determination to invade Iraq is nothing if not fact-based.
09/10/04
No doubt it's a strong case. Why, then, does it feel so unconstructive?
09/10/04
Where Hijacking does its job best is in laying out the historical details of what Kwiatkowski calls the 'storyline' leading up to the Iraq invasion, a narrative fiction prepared and sold by neocons to a gullible, and scared, public.
09/10/04
This sobering documentary proposes that the real reason for the war with Iraq is a two-decade, three-administration, neo-conservative master plan to take over the world.
09/09/04
Top Critic
Less a movie than a litany of arguments intended as, or at least only useful as, a brickbat in the discourse, aimed at your neighbor's Republican noggin.
09/07/04
It’s the alpha male pathology that drives men to war and motivates them to want to protect their own that Hijacking Catastrophe explores most effectively.
09/05/04
Though unabashedly one-sided, the documentary avoids being didactic and makes its case clearly and forcefully.
08/11/04
Goes beyond simple Bush-bashing to paint a horrifying portrait of organized U.S. imperialist expansion and public deception stretching back to the early Reagan era.
08/11/04
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