The Looming Tower

2018

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8| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
mcleanmuir A gripping, thought provoking series that kept me glued from the first to the last episode.
Jmcgwelch There was a 2003 (?) PBS documentary called the Man Who Knew. John was a unique guy. He didn't fit the mold of the "Game Show Hosts" at the FBI. And the CIA should have been prosecuted.
jshoaf The last episode, which begins when the first plane hits (not a spoiler), brought me up against my own memories of 9/11. My son was in the city, and on that day I worried about him and listened to him on the phone. Aside from that, I was numb. It seemed utterly incomprehensible that this should have happened. Who? Why? How? Equally incomprehensible was the speed with which these questions were in fact answered, for reasons the Hulu series makes clear: the answers were already at the fingertips of various players who didn't know what to do with them (though the finale implies that various parties were prepared to exploit the bombing instantly). The series begins at the (or a) beginning, including the Kenyan embassy bombing, the USS Cole bombing, and interactions among the players on both sides. The questions have been answered, the lines drawn in such a way as to meet at this point, with the bombings. As I watched the last episode, I was able to feel for the people I love who were breathing that dust that day. I could finally weep for them, as well as for John O'Neill and Ali Soufan, whom I had not known about until now.
dean-556 View if your want to understand the SJW/Progressive narrative in regards to the reasons for and who's to blame for being "too busy" to concerns themselves with "the number 1 threat to national security". Even The Patriarchy" gets its credit for the failure. When Daniels gives his usual "Woke" speech, (to his priest): "The world's in Chaos. Okay. Men screw everything up. I know I'm part of that. We both know I'm part of that. But i'm trying to put things right " Then they cut to him going doggy style to one of this two mistresses. It's okay though because it's just a dramatization "inspired by" the events of 9/11 for the other 80% of its content.