Information
| Year: | 2008 |
| Rating: | 7.1(22405) |
| Listed in: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Jeffrey Nachmanoff |
| Actors: | Don Cheadle Guy Pearce Saïd Taghmaoui Neal McDonough Alyy Khan Archie Panjabi |
| "The truth is complicated." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey Nachmanoff | |
| Actors | |
| Don Cheadle | as Samir Horn |
| Guy Pearce | as Roy Clayton |
| Saïd Taghmaoui | as Omar |
| Neal McDonough | as Max Archer |
| Alyy Khan | as Fareed |
| Raad Rawi | as Nathir |
| Hassam Ghancy | as Bashir |
| Adeel Akhtar | as Hamzi |
| Jeff Daniels | as Carter |
| Scali Delpeyrat | as Inspector Gilles |
| Mehdi Ortelsberg | as Ali |
| Aizoun Abdelkader | as Ahmed |
| Mohamed Choubi | as Security Force Captain |
| Farid Regragui | as Wadi |
| Habib Hamdane | as Scarecrow |
| Youness Sardi | as Omar's Crew |
| Joseph Beddelem | as Omar's Crew |
| Alaa Safi | as Omar's Crew |
| Tom Barnett | as Andrew Kelly |
| Simon Reynolds | as Ted Blake |
| Matt Gordon | as Simon |
| Patrick Rodney Barnes | as Suicide Bomber #1 |
| Ali Momen | as Suicide Bomber #3 |
| Paulino Nunes | as Suicide Bomber #4 |
| Jeff Kassel | as Software Company Manager |
| Mike McPhaden | as Computer Tech |
| Dani Jazzar | as Munir |
| Jonathan Walker | as Hayes |
| José Heuze | as Alvarez |
| Scott Wickware | as Dupree |
| Elias Zarou | as Iqbal |
| Nick Alachiotis | as Ship Crew Member |
| Alex Poch-Goldin | as FBI Surveillance Agent |
| Yassine Mamadou | as Samir (10 Years Old) |
| Omar Mamadou | as Samir's Father |
| Mostafa Hnini | as Fake Policeman |
| Michaël Troude | as Spanish Patrolman |
| Rodriguez Gelos | as Tour Group Employee |
| Ron Bell | as Bus Driver |
| David Clark | as Security Agent |
| John Rainone jr. | as Business Executive |
| Robert Karn | as Terrorist |
| Actresses | |
| Archie Panjabi | as Chandra Dawkin |
| Mozhan Marnò | as Leyla |
| Lorena Gale | as Dierdre Horn |
| Shahla Kareen | as Suicide Bomber #2 |
| Alexandra Castillo | as Dark Haired Woman |
| Catherine Galloway | as BBC Reporter |
| Myriam Blanckaert | as Inspector Gilles' Deputy |
| Natasha Roy | as Translator #1 |
| Suzy Brack | as Redhead on Bicycle |
| Sima Fisher | as Computer Girl |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Arabic |
| Filming dates: | September 2007 - ? |
| Budget: | USD 22,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 23,530,831 USD (25 November 2008) UK - 78,675 GBP (29 March 2009) France - 265,540 EUR (15 February 2009) Greece - 15,624 EUR (19 October 2008) Mexico - 2,200,456 MXN (19 October 2008) |
| Plot: | A firm believer in the Holy Quran, Samir Horn, American citizen and former soldier, lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with his girlfriend, Chandra Dawkin. He is actively involved in selling explosives to Jihadis. While in a Yemeni prison, Samir is attacked, and another inmate, Omar, comes to his aid. Both men become close friends, subsequently escape from prison, re-locate to France and elude authorities for some time. Both men re-enter the U.S., meet with Fareed Mansour and Nathir, and together they plan to place bombs in 50 Greyhound buses (one for each State). Using modern sophisticated methods - the foursome recruit 50 volunteers to carry out this gruesome task, quite confident that they will not be stopped in time by the U.S. authorities. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Ayadjidjè" Written by Mark Kilian (ASCAP) Lyrics by Marcel Adjibi (BMI) Performed by Marcel Adjibi and Mark Kilian "Laisse-Toi Aller" Written by Mark Kilian (ASCAP) Lyrics by Marcel Adjibi (BMI) Performed by Marcel Adjibi and Mark Kilian |
Goofs
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GEOG: A panning shot of Washington DC later crosses the Potomac, showing the Rossyln part of Northern Virginia. A building obviously in Virginia ends the scene, with text that mentions the building as a special operations office of the FBI in "Washington, DC." Continuity: When Samir parks the SUV at the apartment complex on the street next to the basketball game, the driver's side front window is all the way down. When the police following him reach it, the window is completely up. CHAR: When the FBI agent is talking to Deirdre Horn in the restaurant, a menu sign in the background lists an item as "chicken diner'. It should be "chicken dinner". Revealing mistakes: During Samir and Carter's first conversation, very few drops are visible hitting either them or the car next to them during a heavy rainstorm. Fact errors: At the start of the movie, Samir is praying on the left side of his father. He should be praying on the right. Continuity: In the prison yard when Samir is supposedly praying he ignores the guy threatening him and then when Omar comes in he's still in the prayer position but when the other guys leave he just walks away with Omar not completing his prayer. Fact errors: In the first prison scene, this is supposedly set in Yemen. When the inmates start saying their prayers, they do so in the direction of the sun. When in Yemen looking at the sun, you are facing south, while the prayers should be in the direction of Mekka - which is north of Yemen. Revealing mistakes: During the scenes in Yemen, soldiers and terrorists are not talking in Yemen accent, instead most of them are talking in (Moroccan) accent. In other scenes they switch from classic Arabic dialect to Moroccan accent again. GEOG: When Roy and Max are on one of the freighters in Halifax, NS, the camera pans out to the harbour to show another boat and a distant bridge. The harbour is clearly not Halifax. Halifax has two bridges, which are suspension bridges, the bridge in the distance may be a cantilever or compression arch bridge. Fact errors: In the FBI Special Task Force headquarters, the time on LED clocks in the background is incorrect. The GMT clock displays 14:17 whereas the Pakistan clock displays 01:17. Pakistan time zone is GMT+5, therefore it should have been 19:17 in Pakistan when it's 14:17 in London. Revealing mistakes: When the London police are approaching the apartment building they're using two motorcycles and a van. The van, if seen from the front, clearly shows the Mercedes-Benz star, making it a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter but when the "SWAT" officers exit the van, the rear door says Dodge on it. The Dodge Sprinter was, at no point, sold in the UK. Fact errors: In a briefing the fact is mentioned some of the terrorists were contacted by payphone in (among others) Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In the Netherlands hardly any payphones are left and as opposed to payphones in the US or the UK, Dutch payphones cannot be called directly, since their number is not displayed or issued anywhere. FAIR: Samir states that they can avoid having their e-mails traced by logging on to each suicide bomber's account, editing the e-mails with mission instructions and then saving them as drafts, this way there would be nothing transmitted on the network. Then the bombers would login to their accounts and read the draft e-mail. Others have suggested the activity over the network to access the web mail account could be tracked. However, connections to web mail accounts are encrypted (https). In addition, tracking what someone is doing from an Internet café on the web would result in a lot of noise with very little value. More high-value information comes from tracking email, which has a sender, a recipient, and is unencrypted (and therefore would trace the network for law enforcement). Saving the mail in drafts is a very good way to significantly reduce the likelihood of the communications being intercepted in time to be of value. Continuity: When Samir is talking to Chandra in the park, in Chicago, he is sitting in the center section of the three-section bench. When the FBI agents look at them through a spotting scope, he is instantly shown sitting within the left section, closer to her. In the next shot of them, he is back in the center. FAIR: During the scene where Samir is running into the apartment complex in Chicago while running away from the FBI agents, the original agents following him radio in that they are at the address "128 S. Randolph." There is no S. Randolph St. in the city of Chicago as Randolph runs East/West. However movie-makers frequently use nonexistent addresses, equivalent to telephone nos that start with "555-" to avoid legal issues. CHAR: Samir crosses into the United States from or at Boundary Bay. This would be very close to the worst place to cross from Canada into the United States. The border crossing is the only access to a peninsula which contains the hamlet of Point Roberts with a population of several thousand. To access the rest of the States, Samir would have to rent a boat and go be sea to Bellingham or Blaine, or he could go back into Canada by road. Continuity: When preparing bombs to use in the attack on the American consulate in Nice, Samir is shown with 3 presumably completed bombs. When he opens up his tool box to place the bombs, there are but two; this fact is later confirmed by Clayton and Archer at the scene. GEOG: The bridge in question is the Burlington Skyway bridge in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and it is not a cantilever bridge. That's a long way from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Revealing mistakes: When Samir goes to the London home shortly after the bombing in Nice, a black taxi is seen passing in the street shortly before he enters the building. Next day he hails a taxi after getting off a bus. It is the same taxi. Whilst this is possible, it is highly improbable, given the number of black taxis in London. Revealing mistakes: When Samir goes to the London home shortly after the bombing in Nice, a black taxi is seen passing in the street shortly before he enters the building. Next day he hails a taxi after getting off a bus. It is the same taxi. Whilst this is possible, it is highly improbable, given the number of black taxis in London. After leaving the taxi and making a tube journey, it is seen again passing Samir in the archway. Later, another member of the gang is seen in the same taxi. |
Quotes
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Samir Horn: The truth is complicated. Max Archer: [to Clayton] Look, you gotta be shittin' me. The US is gonna be attacked today and we just arrived at the ass end of Canada. Samir Horn: Oh I'm a terrorist ? Roy Clayton: I don't know you tell me , you've been selling them explosives. Samir Horn: Oh I sell to who can afford to buy it... like the US Government. Max Archer: Only ours don't kill innocent people Samir Horn: Oh yeah they do genius, people just usually have darker skin Samir Horn: [Regretting killing 2 innocent people] Allahom Eghferly... Allahom Eghferly ! (Oh Allah, Please forgive me!) Samir Horn: You know that the Qu'ran says that if you kill an innocent person it's as if you've killed all mankind? Roy Clayton: It also says that if you save a life its like you've saved all mankind... You're a hero Samir. Samir Horn: If a man hasn't found something he's willing to die for, he isn't fit to live. Max Archer: [Referring to the bomber captured in Spain] This guy's gotta be in a state of shock. He planned on waking up in Paradise to 72 virgins. Blow yourself up to get laid, this is gotta be some crazy s**t! Roy Clayton: Where I grew up the Klan burned crosses in front of people's houses and called it Christianity. Then my daddy and the folks from the church would drive over and put them out. Seems every religion has more than one face. Samir Horn: [defying FBI agents] The only difference between you and him is he *knows* he's an asshole. Roy Clayton: [lecture about punching detainee] You get a suspect to talk to you by pushing his buttons, not by letting him push yours. Nobody ever teach you that? Samir Horn: I've been in a lot of battles. And it may have seemed like a suicide mission at the time, but we always had a plan to come home. Omar: You must be willing to sacrifice some of your pawns if you want to win the game. Samir Horn: I don't know. Omar: I think you do. You risked your life to share your food with a stranger. Samir Horn: That's not the same thing. I was just doing my duty. If I had known... Omar: Jihadi is also your duty. Ahmed has told me what you have done in Afghanistan. Samir Horn: Tactics have changed my friend. Omar: Tactics have always changed. You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules. Once upon a time it was the Americans who were terrorists to the British. They forgetting their history already. Roy Clayton: Do you think Samir believes it's God's will for him to kill others? Dierdre Horn: You carry a gun yourself. Roy Clayton: Now you didn't answer my question. Dierdre Horn: My son has seen enough death to understand the value of life. Nathir: In chess and in war the key to winning is to anticipate what your opponent will do in advance. Think two moves ahead. The art of asymmetrical warfare is less about inflicting damage than provoking a response. Terrorism is theater. And theater is always performed for an audience. Ours is the American people. But they are dispersed across a large country. The question is how to convince them that nowhere is safe. Omar: It's true what they say. War is the lesser Jihad. To overcome temptation, to live rightly, that is the great Jihad. Samir Horn: And is that what we've been doing? Did you ever ask yourself that? Roy Clayton: [last lines - peace greeting] Al-Salamu Alaykum. Samir Horn: Alaykum Al-Salaam. And you should *start* the conversation with that. Roy Clayton: Nobody is dragged into a street fight. |
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