The Nailbomber

There's certainly an interesting doco in here but it's very poorly produced.

None of the participants in doco are identified and producers try to be way too cute in how it's all presented.

Subject is interesting but program presentation lets it all down.

What these people did, and their ilk, deserved nothing less than the death sentence. Despicable excuse for human beings.

But once has to ask. Why now? With tensions in the world reaching critical mass, why now choose to bring this story to the globe. Just something to think about.

Just boring, not important scenes. No USA forced drama but the harsh facts just don't seem interesting.

Could have been a lot better.

The story is interesting, but the film does not expound enough on the racial environment at the time; nor the white supremacist movement, either then or now. There's plenty of film footage, primarily old news clips, but very little in depth analysis. For instance, not much in the way of the immediate aftermath, or the long term effects of these events.

It's not a very long film; but with that, it felt like further details were needed for some context. A more diverse range of credible interviewees would've helped. It's still worth watching, it's not terrible by any means.

As other reviewers have said it felt short.

When I started watching this I was thinking "how do I not know about this?". To be fair I was 15 at the time and in a not very nice home situation so had other things on my mind but my home town is one of the London satellite towns so I can't believe I didn't have this imprinted in my consciousness. When I got to the end I realised I did remember this... The bombing at the gay bar and thought it was something to do with the IRA. Is my lack of memory about the bombs in the black and Bangladeshi neighbourhoods a reflection of my ignorance or the way it was reported at the time? I hate to admit it but I was raised with right wing family members, and although I've always had my own mind and learned to be more open minded as I've got older it isn't unreasonable that some of the poison I heard when I was growing up was still in my mind.

I feel that this doc would have benefitted from more focus on the long reaching effects of the bombings on the Brixton and Brick Lane areas. The focus seemed to be on survivors of the Soho bomb. Yes, they suffered deaths there but physical and mental injuries are also horrific. I can't be the only one who wanted to know what the outcome was for the baby who had a nail stuck in their head. We don't need to infringe on this person's privacy but it would be nice to know if they recovered.

Lastly, some update on how human rights and equality has progressed, or not, in the years following would be nice. Some insight into the animal's background and upbringing. What made him so full of hate? What were his parents like? I think we all have a need to understand what makes someone hate so much.