Strong and Moving!

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Devoid of "Political Correctness". More along the lines of that old FBI show, "Just the facts Ma'am". The captured cellphone conversations between the young terrorist and their cowardly "controllers" urging them to kill more and more, reminding them to die instead of getting arrested, is sickening. Makes you want to find the controllers and torture them a bit. One who was arrested told how his own father sold him to the "controllers" promising he'd make lots of money if he went with the men. They were indoctrinated, actually brainwashed in a 3 month intensive and violent camp where they weren't even allowed to speak to others in the same situation. These young men were being created as guided missiles under the control of these cowards who sent them out. Told them lies about how those who died in jihad glowed with a godly light as their souls ascended to heaven, etc. After seeing all the killing you could almost feel sorry for the young man who was caught, the others having died. Eventually he was executed for his crime. The narration if anything was understated, which I'm glad it wasn't being emotionalized, especially since the videos of the killings were more than enough to do that. Well worth viewing to see into the minds and operations of these hit squads and their cowardly controllers.

Portions of Terror in Mumbai are riveting: the video footage of the attacks; interview segments with survivors, police and witnesses; and most fascinating of all, bedside footage of the police interview with the surviving Lashkar e Taiba killer. Unfortunately, these segments are connected by an incredibly annoying, breathless narration from neo-con journalist Fareed Zakaria (a student of orientalist Samuel 'Clash of Civilizations' Huntington) that is disrespectful to the victims and completely unwilling to engage the serious political issues behind the attack. It's especially disappointing, as director Dan Reed's previous film, Terror in Moscow, was a masterful documentary that didn't oversimplify the issues. This is a lazy piece of film-making that teaches us nothing about terrorism or the often fraught relationship between India and Pakistan, and in fact assumes a hysterical anti-Muslim, pro-War on Terror tone.