The Reflecting Pool (2008)

A lot of fun.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Professor Steve Jones of BYU was fired due to his meticulous and accurately scientific findings of demolition explosive material in the ash acquired by residents of New York! 9/11 was an inside job and I am so very happy that the truth is coming forth. I have a friend who wrote a fiction book based on a vision before 9/11 ever occurred that contained information that this was an inside job to ensure a money-making "war on terrorism" (See "Iraq for Sale: the War-Profiteers" for the billions of dollars made on wars!)! I am so glad that there are patriotic Americans who do NOT ignore the truth and are valiant to proclaim the truth rather than seeking money and status quo! All guilty parties for the inside-job of 9/11 will rot in hell as you cannot take money and power with you. This was an extremely GREAT movie with a most IMPORTANT message, "Everything checks out" in this movie! It makes sense which does determine truth! Why do people believe lies when the truth is staring you right in your face?

This film is the perfect medium to get people thinking about 9/11, the event, the contradictions and its legacy. It manages to pack so many astounding facts about 9/11 and present them in a gripping manner.I especially like the way viewers get to live through the hurdles faced by other concerned journalists and citizens investigating 9/11. For example, the hit-piece by the "Bare Facts" O'Reilly-esk news sequence with the sullying 'expert' is very fitting.Producing a movie on such a controversial and under-reported topic must've been tough. But it was well worth it and should be an inspiration to all of us.

A failure artistically and as education.This docudrama depicts a search for the truth about the events of 9/11. It takes place in 2006, and, apparently, only 3 people in the world are skeptical enough about the 'official story' to decide to investigate it. The main character is a magazine journalist who has a few weeks in which to write an article exposing the truth. This is not helpful to the 9/11 Truth movement, since by 2006 many thousands of people were interested and/or investigating and hundreds of books and DVDs had been published on the topic.As if that's not bad enough, the acting is pretty bad and the writing is pedestrian.

We will never know for sure who was behind the assassination of JFK. We will never know for sure what really happened in Roswell. And we will definitely never know what really happened on 9/11. The U.S. is what it has always been. If this really was a conspiracy, it will long since have been so well covered up that not even Washington Post can disclose it.After all the conspiracy theories (they even have their own websites), this film was a great disappointment with just a repetition of some highlights. It does not even attempt to make any dramatization. There are no effects; just two middle-aged men talking to each other and interviewing some chosen people.A bad thing about America is that Watergate could happen at all. A good thing is that it was exposed. And that it inspired films like "All the President's Men", "Nixon" and "Wag the Dog".