Distorting historical events to make a movie more entertaining is nothing new for Hollywood and the movie industry everywhere, not just that of the USA. Generally it's something that people can live with: if you want the real facts you can read a reliable book. It is, however, a problem with events in the relatively recent past, particularly when they involve a current omnipresent situation that everyone in the western world is faced with, namely Islamic terrorists. Despite the disclaimers that this is not a documentary and scenes are fictionalised, too many people have an immediate emotional involvement and political concern for this to be acceptable in this case. Even for those who haven't read the 9/11 Commmission report there are a lot of question marks raised in one's mind about what is presented, and there are now admissions on the part of the producers that some things didn't actually happen, in fact some things are the exact opposite of what actually happened. As a movie this isn't too bad, although the jerky hand held footage and quick cut editing is a little too distracting at times. Maybe ABC should have just put it in the vault for 20 years.
Review of The Path to 9/11
