The War Within Critic Reviews
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Not entirely free from an aura of didacticism or contrivance, but the film by and large functions as a taut thriller. A drastic act late in the film on the part of Duri seems somewhat implausible, but that does not deter The War Within from emerging as a mostly well-wrought and timely tragedy.Read the full review
A portrait of a mild-mannered zealot, one that seeps under the skin and unsettles the nerves.Read the full review
The War Within plays effectively off our voyeurism, yet it has such a cloistered, American-eyed view of the nightmare of terrorism that I kept searching for the profound explanation beneath its piecemeal ones.Read the full review
Hampered by a mopey leading man.Read the full review
The War Within succeeds only as a thriller with some wartime overtones, rather than as a character study that thrills.Read the full review
Sometimes too pat and sometimes ragged with omissions and confusions, but it's still a fascinating look outside of that familiar world and into a harsher one.Read the full review
Tries too hard to be even-handed.Read the full review
An honorable but failed attempt to dramatize the dynamics that propel a basically good man to become a suicide bomber, The War Within contains provocative points inside a dull package.Read the full review
Does a fairly good job of laying out the basic political motives behind Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately, as a drama, it has its narrative peak in the middle and quickly runs out of story afterward.Read the full review
