I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Very Cool!!!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I saw Michael Ware on Real Time before this film came out, and his state made me interested to see this film – since essentially it is a document of his time in Iraq from the start of the GW Bush war, through the rise of the insurgency. The footage that this gives us is not only impacting in terms of what he shot, but also the access he got to footage filmed by the jihadists themselves. It perhaps goes without saying that this film is a brutally hard watch, with a lot of footage which is violent and upsetting in nature.In this way it is an engaging watch though, because it very much feels like we are in the center of this terrible darkness, and to see the roots of it is to understand the endless cycle with no easy way to break it. Again, it is not pleasant to watch this, but it is engaging in that bleakness. Unfortunately, the film itself is not particularly good. As a documentary it is too focused on Ware, while at the same time not really being focused on him. The narration is heavily used to keep all this footage together, which in and of itself is a problem. This weakness is more noticeable because the narration is not great in its dialogue – it feels forced and overwrought at times; with Ware many steps ahead of the viewer. Unfortunately this weakness in form and delivery does stay with the film and the viewer, and it prevents it being a good documentary, even if the footage is shocking and engages on that level.

Real life violence is more disturbing than movie violence, that's a fact, as this brave Aussie individual filmmaker/journalist, Ware, takes us, may'be, too close, sometimes, to the ongoing way in Iraq, while this was early times, for that number one, infamous and hunted terrorist. Here, they're after a smaller important party, with a price on his head. This is a stark and grim ride amidst bombs, be headings and some truly scary, and dangerously serious moments, one involving the welfare of our filmmaker, who's made something short of a masterpiece, and a beautifully written V.O doc too by Ware. The film has a nasty air to it, and that's how it should be seen. He's one of the bravest and ballsy filmmakers, I've seen, this side of war. At the end of it, my Dad commented, jokingly or not, "I hope he didn't go back". No joke, that very realization had me in a pith of worry and concern. Probably the best, up close and personal view of this endless nightmarish war you'll ever see. Be warned, some of the violent images, are stark and shocking, and will be heavy on some viewers, one in the second to the final frame of the still breathing enemy, you thought initially was a goner. There are a few stereotypical moments, that has us feeling we're just watching another in the field doco on this war, but I'm no saying that as a criticism. A non issue. For the most part, it's a frank and unsettling journey into the blackest realities of the war, the meaty part of the footage of Ware's trepidation and dangerous exploits, really starting mid way.

To understand war, we have to experience it as a soldier. Michael Ware is that soldier, and we join him every step of the way. Whilist this movie is gory and bloody (real corpses and stuff) and quite possibly the most disturbing movie I've seen, it really captures the essence of war. Months ago, you would have found me making Jihad and Muslim jokes (not to be offensive; I respect their religion and understand it's all about peace), now, I feel bad for making those jokes; I never understood terrorists in general or what they were capable of, until I saw this movie. If you want to understand war yourself, you have to first put yourself in the eyes of a soldier and their shoes. This movie does just that.

One has to give props to Ware for bringing us such gripping images, and for partially sacrificing his own mental health in that pursuit. And also for venturing out a few times to be embedded with Iraqi militant groups. However, he is mostly embedded with US troops and it shows - and the film has problems due to the ideology that is expected from anyone hired at media like CNN & Time. Let's start at the very end, with the image of a man who dies in the hands of US troops and who could have been saved by Ware saying something. He has explained this by saying that 1) he had lost his humanity due to the war 2) He had gotten too immersed in his role as a journalist who simply observes but doesn't get involved in things. While these 2 are to some extent true, there is a third, far more powerful explanation: Ware was simply siding with the US military, not with "the enemy", who was represented by the man dying on the ground. Had the situation been reversed, and some Iraqi fighters with access to medical care had a US soldier in such conditions while Ware was filming, he would have been much more likely to ask for help. Certainly Ware acts very worried about a sergeant gone quiet in Fallujah, pro-actively trying to save him. The more personal and extensive interactions with the US soldiers lead the viewer to identify with the US side. Similarly, we hear that anti-US forces are "barbaric" "slaughterers"; with references to times "they had the advantage" in the battle of Fallujah, while US troops are simply "good men losing their grip" "young kids on an impossible mission", with reference to times when they only had "a third of the troops they needed" . Of course, in reality, it was Iraqi fighters that were in general vastly out-gunned by the US, while the amount of slaughter was mostly perpetrated by the US. During the 1st battle of Fallujah shown in the film (2004) only 27 U.S. troops were killed, while a total of 800 Iraqis died of which 572–616 were civilians and 184–228 were fighters. The Lancet report, which covers roughly the same range of years featured in this movie (2003-2006) estimated 654,965 excess deaths related to the war, through the end of June 2006. 601,027 deaths were due to violence. 31% (186,318) of those were attributed to the US-led Coalition, 24% (144,246) to others, and 46% (276,472) were unknown. The causes of violent deaths were gunshot (56% or 336,575), car bomb (13% or 78,133), other explosion/ordnance (14%), air strike (13% or 78,133), accident (2% or 12,020), and unknown (2%). So the data simply doesn't support Ware's ideological, one-sided use of words like "barbaric" "slaughterers" "terror" etc. And this is even ignoring the context of the US invasion being illegal and unjustified. One wonders how we would have felt about a journalist presenting a similar picture, but embedded with the Soviet troops in the 80s in Afghanistan. Also, the film conveniently oversimplifies the fighters in Fallujah by calling them "Zarqawi's men", when they actually came from several different groups, not just the one led by Zarqawi. A sign outside Fallujah's "Martyr's cemetery" reads: "This cemetery is given by the people of Fallujah to the heroic martyrs of the battle against the Americans, and to the martyrs of the Jihadi operations against the Americans, assigned and approved by the Mujahideen Shura council in Fallujah." The Mujahideen Shura Council featured at least 6 different insurgent groups.