The War Within [Blu-ray] | ![The War Within [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Dn0csvKqL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Joseph Castelo
Actors: Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji, Nandana Sen, Sarita Choudhury, Charles Daniel Sandoval
Studio: Magnolia
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 74739
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 10048
UPC: 876964000482
EAN: 0876964000482
ASIN: B000GFRIJU
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 19, 2006
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WAR WITHIN THE (BLURAY) (BLU-RAY DISC)
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 good movie October 3, 2008
Michael S. Mello
this movie was very good a little depressing though but tells it from the other side
 not always the case May 16, 2008
N. Chandran
the point of this movie is to show the contrary perspective as to what motivates the terrorist - that he is captured, tortured by the military which makes him seek revenge and thus become a terrorist bent on destruction.
but are all terrorists only so because they too went through the same abuse? were the 9/11 terrorists too brutalized by the army and was theirs an act of revenge?
or do all people who have faced police brutality become terrorists who kill innocent civilians?
i'm from india and even as i write this, only two days back, synchronized bombings ripped through the "pink city" of jaipur killing hundreds. india has been facing such attacks and mindless religion inspired violence for the last 20 years and so excuse me if i am not convinced by this line of argument as presented by this film.
But what creates the terrorist? November 19, 2007
Brian Allen (Manistee, MI USA)
In this film's fast paced opening scene you are shown the main character, Hassan, being kidnaped by Americans and tortured by Pakistanis. He befriends an Muslim man in his cell and then somehow ends up in a shipping crate in New Jersey where he returns to live with his friend Sayeed whom hasn't seen or heard from him for three years.
The remainder of the film is no longer broken in time and is easily followed as Hassan works with his terrorist cell to plan an attack on New York. As we viewed the movie we assumed that it would reveal "a war within" Hassan's heart and mind, that he would be torn by his commitment to terrorism and his opposing feelings towards his American friend and family that sheltered him in their home along with his hint of romantic feelings towards his friends sister.
There is much drama in this film especially towards the climatic final scene but there is very little revealed about the "war within" at least within Hassan's self. Two aspects of the film could have been changed to make it more powerful. One would have been to show what had happened to him after his kidnapping. How did he survive the torture? What did he do with his rage? Did he live in Pakistan? Who did he befriend there and what was it like, all very fascinating possiblities for this film. Also he never appeared to be ambivalent about his goal despite the perfect friendship and the temptation of a beautiful young woman. There was much here to work with and the result was at too many times a bit flat and too dark to illuminate many of the questions we have about men like Hassan.
 What is a human being? October 31, 2007
Alastair N. Mcleod (San Diego, California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The War Within forced feelings on me that I would rather not have, but that I recognize as essential. The film's protagonist is a mild Pakistani engineer, kidnapped in error on a Paris street by the CIA, tortured, and radicalized by his baseless mistreatment. He comes out of imprisonment and torture a terrorist, a suicide bomber, assigned to wreak havoc in New York. His original innocence, and our collective guilt, does nothing in my eyes to lessen his loathesomeness. He is a traitor to everything I believe in, to trust, to honor, to self. He worships and obeys a pitiless, tyrant, monster god beyond my power to conceive or to wish to conceive. But he is presented, convincingly, as a human being, and that convincingness presents me with a very serious problem. It is not that I find him sympathetic. It is not that I find myself saying, "That could be me." I despise and reject him and all his works, and cannot conceive of myself following a path such as his. And yet, and yet...he is a man. He is a sane man, and by his own lights, a good man, a principled man. What I am to hope for if I am to recognize such a creature as a fellow human being? This film did not permit me, as films usually do, to write off the villain as a preening Nazi sadist or a bloody Mafia thug, one who has shed his humanity and become something less than an animal. No. This man is me. And yet he can not be me.
There is a suggestion, at the end of the film, that in response to 9/11, the United States has involved itself in an endless cycle of violence and injustice that is continuously creating exactly what it has learned to fear. I find, in the behavior of my government, some strong reasons to accept such a thesis, but nonetheless, I think it is wrong. I believe we must and will find another way. This film is a lesson to me in how exceedingly difficult it is not to enter into that hopeless cycle when confronted by an enemy to whom violence is virtue and self-destruction nobility.
Suprising March 10, 2007
Joseph Martin (Orange County, CA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This movie is suprisingly well done for a low budget film. I urge you to get this movie; you will not be dissapointed.
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