Film Review

Hassan is a Pakistani student studying engineering in Paris when he is snatched off the streets by intelligence services to be questioned, tortured and imprisoned for alleged terrorist activity. After a few years in prison he pops up again, this time in New York as part of a terror cell who have come to carry out a suicide mission in the city after 9-11.

The War Within is a daring film, it tires to get inside the mind of a terrosit and search for explanations to why someone would go to such extreme measures for their beliefs. When Hassan's terror cell is broken up and virtually all his fellow radicals captured, he must go underground and decide dhwt ahis next move will be.

This is a very slow moving film, very low-key and with few, in fact, no, emtional highs, but I was so taken by Hassan's internal journey that it didn't matter. The filmmakers did a great job of showing the complex emotions he was going through and why it was that he took such a path.

The War Within has recieved little if any press and might be hard to find, but is worth the effort. Or perhaps you'll find it at your local Blockbuster, if so, rent it.