Film Review Severe Visibility: About the terrorist attack on the Pentagon

Severe Visibility is film nearly the terrorist set on on the Pentagon during 9/eleven and the investigation into that attack afterwards. At the heart of that investigation as well as this film is Stanley Kruter (Paul Cross), a US Army Major alongside the accounting branch of the Pentagon. Since Major Kruter was present inward the Pentagon the solar day of the assault, he is naturally called into turn over testimony most what he saw that twenty-four hour period. Major Kruter says he saw a airplane wing yesteryear his window into the building but from the constant flash backs throughout the film, the viewer forthwith knows the truth of the affair. “It would accept been impossible for me non to have seen it” is the Major’s constant assertion when asked if he really saw the airplane hit the Pentagon. Soon Major Kruter is questioning the validity of his memories together with why he is proverb what he is proverb. Andrew Porter (Dennis Kleinman), a journalist investigating the American Airlines 757’sec crash, begins request the exact same things of Major Kruter. At first Major Kruter is resistant, he loves his land deeply, but the questions together with hypothesized answers go more as well as more credible to him when seen in lite of the dubious official version.

The core of Severe Visibility is Major Kruter as well as the means his heed plant. It is that together with the tidbits of information almost the crash before, during and after it that are the most interesting aspects of this cinema. Since Major Kruter is a lone private, he keeps to himself together with oftentimes writes inward a mag, recording his thoughts, hopes as well as doubts at that place. In his journal, Major Kruter writes to an private who helped define our land together with through his words, helped mold it into what it is today. Though it is strange that Major Kruter writes his magazine entries to “Thomas”, it is non out of place that a patriot in addition to soldier holds this individual inward such high esteem.

Where Severe Visibility becomes the most entertaining, therefore much thus that the viewer looks yesteryear the constraints that this pocket-sized budget celluloid had to debate with is the alternate theory for the events at the Pentagon on ix/11. Each official indicate is counter balanced by an alternate. Their validity, yet, is non something most people will live able to confirm or deny since they don’t have access to military machine records or hardware. This is why writer/director Paul Cross does some of the heavy lifting for the viewer inward that regard, helping to legitimize reporter Porter’sec claims for the alternate chain of events at the Pentagon during ix/xi.

Severe Visibility doesn’t accept the smoothen, spit in addition to shine of other 9/eleven movies (World Trade Center, Flight 51) but it does brand you remember more than than the aforementioned films. It raises questions well-nigh the duplicity of the Unites States Government, the aircraft that was used inward the attack on the Pentagon on ix/11 together with other possible motives for the attack on that government edifice. Severe Visibility makes the viewer enquiry, every bit whatsoever decent conspiracy celluloid should.

Rating: 6/10