Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Leftbanker I need to begin by saying that Guantanamo was and remains to be a huge disgrace for the United States of America and everything most of us feel we represent, things like freedom, human dignity, and the rights of man. This torture chamber dreamed up by Dick Cheney goes against all of that. Whatever problems I had with this film don't change the fact that I think this prison is disgusting, illegal, and immoral."My parents went to Pakistan and they saw a bride for me," are the first lines spoken by Asif in the film. And the bride? Perhaps a first cousin as is all too common amongst Pakistanis in flagrant disregard for the health risks their children will incur. Or perhaps she is a child also under the complete control of family. He decides to marry her after four days. OK, I think Asif really has to ask himself if England is a place where he feels comfortable living.I'm not sure that turning this into a drama was the best road to take to Guantanamo, an illegal prison that I have opposed from the beginning. Using actors and putting this into a phony documentary format places it more alongside "This is Spinal Tap" than any of the better films in this genre. I am aware that documentaries made with nothing but archival footage can lie as well as in a dramatic recreation but I found it difficult to see the line in this between fact and fiction, where fiction is hearsay and the testimony of the four boys.I still don't know if 100% of this was a dramatization or if they used any news clips. Dramatization or prevarication? The film lost any sense of verisimilitude once American soldiers were introduced because evidently the director didn't bother to ask any in the know about just what sort of uniforms and insignias American soldiers wear. Even the American accents were phony.When they arrived at Guantanamo the Marines were the worse Marine impersonators ever.A few unanswered questions: How did all of the men die who were in the truck? It looked as if at least half of those who entered had perished inside yet they don't say how.

tmaterman How in the name of any god, and why would you as a Brit going to a wedding suddenly: go to a war zone to see if you could help and how big the 'naans' are?? That's what I really did not get. Then the story line was very weak in my point of view, every time you thought OK, not we're somewhere, the plot or story just stopped and went somewhere else. For example: they are once questioned why they were in Afhganistan? ... you expect them to answer that they were there for a wedding, but boom the camera turns and takes another view without letting them answer on that question. In the end they answered sometimes; but then it were answers like: 'Bullshit' (litteraly) on the same sort of questioning. Why did they not persevere in that they were unguilty? That made me almost angry... it is a bad thing what happens in Guantanamo, but at the same time it seemed to me as: what happens if you let a American fool interrogate a British fool? Anwering foolish, then you get foolish treatment as well I guess!

Edgar Soberon Torchia Some people pretend motion pictures should do the homework for them. Give them all possible points of views, so they can lazily make a judgment, come to a conclusion, ignoring the multi-fold aspects of all situations. I believe that what makes "The Road to Guantánamo" more interesting than the average movie, is that it dares to show a part of present history that few filmmakers care to tell, with honesty and affection, and without make-ups (special effects first come to mind, but I think mostly of the routine solutions given to human dramas --or comedies-- in most mainstream movies.) True, there may be atrocities done by all parties concerned with political issues, but we are always treated with the same discourses of fight for democracy, liberty, or civil rights, and it's positive to find more filmmakers willing to disclose the ugly faces of the demagogues, and the different dark sides of world affairs. There is definitely not only one point of view to everything, and this drama (I don't think it is a documentary, although it uses techniques of the genre) gives us more information, so we can do our homework with a little bit more of knowledge. As Law states, the ignorance of a rule does not make us innocent if we break it. So even if we are not aware of what happens beyond our frontiers, we still have our quota of responsibility for all world affairs. This said, I must applaud Michael Winterbottom one more time (even though the film is co-directed by Mat Whitecross.) Winterbottom has become one of my favorite contemporary filmmakers, and surprised me film after film, and none of the ones I have seen have disappointed me. Perhaps the one that I liked less was "24 Hour Party People", but even this one was good. "The Road to Guantánamo" is in the same line of another of his remarkable films, called "In This World", dealing with a boy from Afghanistan who crosses Europe to get to England. These works are far from other Winterbottom works, all fine in my opinion: the romantic science-fiction "Code 46", the proletarian dramatic comedy "Wonderland", or the costume dramas "The Claim" and "Jude." Now I want to see more!

saturnalia33 I have to admit that I'm not a fan of docu-dramas. I would rather have substance in the background and narration over the top than the film being constantly broken up by those involved retelling what we've just seen or are about to see.Nevertheless, it was an important story worth telling. The real question is whether it was told properly. The director, Michael Winterbottom, has been criticised for not questioning the accounts of the Tipton Three. James Christopher, in his review in the Sunday Times, stated that Winterbottom had "an insane lack of cool perspective," for not questioning the accounts of the Tipton Three."Why, oh why, jump on a minibus to Afghanistan when jets are carpet-bombing the country? If your friends are mortally sick, why catch the next truck to the front line? The sheer stupidity of these Brits mocks the sincerity of the film." After watching the film I felt that the three men had no real reason to be in Afghanistan at the time. They stated that they had heard mixed reports of the Taliban and wanted to find out if they really were bad people. How flimsy an excuse is that for a group that were on their way to an arranged marriage of one of them in Pakistan? A slightly erroneous detour to take don't you think? From a cynical perspective you could argue that it looked like they went over to meet the Taliban and possibly see about aiding their cause at the same time the war kicked off and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time about to get involved in a very wrong thing.So whilst they were innocent of any crimes it is their possible intentions that were guilty and they paid a high price for stupidity.