This is a Netflix documentary I saw on Monday night. I didn't see any movies Tuesday through Thursday due to unexpectedly being out of town:
As is customary, a documentary is viewed while I'm subscribed to Netflix. This was selected as shamefully, I was a Dumb American who didn't know enough about those terrorist attacks.
Note that this shorter than typical review is being posted now due to circumstances beyond my control, a last minute deal that happened. Nothing serious, but it may be a few days before another review's posted.
It's a standard documentary but I was fine with that and don't need those “elevated” examples that have a bizarre fictional opening filled w/ overwrought dialogue-I gave up on more than one recent documentary a few minutes in that did just this! Those won't be mentioned by name. Instead, Attack (thankfully a traditional example where the events were presented in chronological order) presented the facts of the case where radical Islamic terrorists became suicide bombers & detonated their homemade explosives on 7/7/05 in London.
A wide variety of people talked on camera: law enforcement (including those in anti-terrorism units), victims, those in the media, etc. There's even then-Prime Minister Tony Blair offering his insights. The chaos & horror of that month-there were attempted attacks two weeks later-were decently presented. The theme of British Muslims experiencing prejudice is a key plot point, due to an event that occurs in the second half of this 4 episode series, 3 hours in total.
I was happy to learn about something I was dishonorably ignorant about; thus, I'll deem this a success.
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