Operation Terror

This thriller tells the story of how the destruction of the World Trade Center towers might have been accomplished as an inside job. The story is told from the viewpoint of the participants. The whole operation is done as a top secret project started at the direction of an elite member of "The Council" (conspiracy buffs will immediately recognize who they are) and coordinated by a small team of CIA agents assigned the job. A team of aerospace engineers is assembled to design the remote-controlled planes for the attack and is sworn to secrecy, even to the point of not specifying how the planes are to be used. ("That information is above our pay grade.") The filmmakers went to quite some trouble to use as much publicly available information about 9/11 as possible, such as Secretary of Transportation Norman Maneta's account of what took place on 9/11 in the Presidential command center deep beneath the White House, using the exact dialog as given by Maneta. 9/11 may not have happened exactly as depicted in this film, but it does conform to what most of us have been able to find. Kudos to director/actor Paul Cross and producer Art Olivier for getting the most "bang" out of a shoestring budget.

Reckless, self indulgent tripe. As for the reviewers spreading more mindless garbage when ever and where ever they can, please stop and go outside once in a while.

The acting and special effects may be questionable, but the movie answers way more questions than the Official Conspiracy Theory offered by Bush and Cheney. It explains the 3 key questions that the 9/11 Commission Report did not: 1. How did 6 ton steel beams fly 600 feet laterally at 60 mph? What provided such an explosive force? 2. How did the steel and concrete beams and floors collapse at free fall speed for 2.4 seconds acknowledged by NIST? 3. How did NORAD and ANG fail to intercept 4 subsonic aircraft within an hour, even from bases near NY and DC, when they train to this within minutes, and have anti-aircraft stingers missiles at the Pentagon?

This is a low budget movie, made for about $100,000 (in 2011 dollars). And is the first feature film by the producer Art Olivier.

Considering those facts, the production quality is amazing. Disregarding them, is it worth your time? Probably, yes.

It is fictional account, but is very well tied to facts and events associated with 9/11. The film weaves a speculative tale that provides a credible (or at least interesting) alternative explanation for the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Strong believers in the goodness of government will find the cognitive dissonance disturbing, and will shut their minds to the speculative plot line. Anyone with an open mind and ignorant of 9/11 conspiracy theories will find it interesting, but a bit hard to follow in places. 9/11 conspiracy theorists will find it fascinating.

The pacing is brisk, the acting is not bad, and the storyline intricate. Not a dramatic masterpiece, but a great vehicle for provoking thought and discussion, and fun to watch. I liked it better than Atlas Shrugged I. For most people, it is well worth the $20 cost of the DVD. Forget about seeing in the theater, it is too controversial for distribution in the U.S.

If you are looking for a film packing many theories into one film, this is the go to film, but I recommending watching a lot of other 9/11 films first so you can readily enjoy the particulars of this one as to how it evolved. I dont wish to spoil the great ride this one takes us on. Whomever made this did a lot of homework to come up with the plot scenarios and twists. If you spent a lot of time collecting documentaries and listened to scientific lecturers, this film becomes like a desert that follows a good meal.