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First, Steven Seagal has gotten fat. He does not look healthy--much less fit. This movie is dark...in more ways than one. Not only is it done in gritty inner-city areas but its subject and characters are almost all negative creatures of darkness. Seagal appears in only one fight scene--if you can call it that. He whispers, which is hard to hear and irritating. He has this vague Southern accent, which seems put-on. Worse still, he isn't the hero. I've been a fan of Seagal for many years, and have a collection of perhaps all of his videos. This one may well be the last.

Having purchased this independent film in DVD form some years ago, it was somehow overlooked by this reviewer until today, October 2018. That turned out to be fortuitous, since so much research has verified the premise of the film. The producers did their homework. They covered their tracks (to hide the terrible truth of the movie--and thus protect themselves from scorn) by presenting it as a possible series of mental delusions by a military officer and Vietnam veteran on medication and suffering from PTSD. However, in fact, much research by many people since the events of 9/11 have substantiated what is implied in this film. The principal, Major Kruter, is the war veteran with just enough curiosity and drive to question the "facts" offered by the press, his government, the military, and fellow workers within his beloved country. Having had mental difficulties about war and atrocities he had seen firsthand, doubts arise in him regarding clear evidence that he is being lied to by those he should be trusting. The fact of historical false flag operations comes up, another reality our hero--like any normal person--finds difficult to digest. Perhaps the most satisfying quality of this film is its honesty about this world-shaking event. It is art imitating real life. It may even, at some point, be listed as an historical piece.