The Anthrax Attacks

2022

Crime / Documentary

5
IMDb Rating 6.2 10 1014

Plot summary



September 08, 2022 at 01:22 PM

Director

Dan Krauss

Top cast

Clark Gregg as Dr. Bruce Ivins
Peri Gilpin as Sara Hughes
Chris J. Johnson as Vince Lisi
Derek Phillips as Agent Hayward
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
878.37 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
P/S 4 / 18
1.76 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
P/S 4 / 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Sleepin_Dragon 7 / 10

An interesting documentary, maybe a little long.

I think everyone on the planet will remember the events of September 11th, but not everyone will remember these events, in the wake of the terrorist attacks, this felt like another.

It's a pretty interesting documentary, it's made a little differently, it features some interesting footage, some intriguing interviews, and some less than successful dramatisation scenes.

It's watchable, if a little long, I think instead of being 95 minutes long, it could have been 60, at times it did drag.

Quite informative, I had no idea what anthrax was essentially, and how it behaved, I just assumed it was a chemical weapon, so I learned a little.

It was quite shocking to see that The Postal Centre was kept open, actually pretty sickening, contrast that to The Govern building, the thought of it stuck in the back of my throat,

7/10.

Reviewed by kosmasp 6 / 10

Mixed bag

No pun intended - this is not about the Anthrax itself, but what or rather how the documentary is done. Mixing documentary and re-enacted events. With Clark Gregg of all people - I reckon on purpose, because he is quite likeable and not as shady (potentially?) as the character he is supposed to portray.

That mixed bags of goods ... well I am not sure it will work for most people watching this. The scenes that are being redone for dramatic effect ... well they don't entirely work. My sense and my understanding of them. Seeing how people have rated, it seems that others do agree with me though.

Interestingly done, but there are way better documentaries out there, you can spend your time with ... just saying.

Reviewed by kennbr 4 / 10

Can't decide if it wants to be an investigative doc or a dramatized re-enactment

I really don't like documentaries that are actually just dramatized reenactments of the events, and prefer investigative documentaries that rely solely on actual footage, audio and other media involving the event. This documentary tries to straddle both, but unfortunately tries to derive way too much substance from the re-enactment portion. Most of this has to do with one of the FBI's suspects, and at that point in the film the production really goes off the rails into being primarily an over-acted, dramatized re-enactment. I think they felt this was really necessary to better highlight the reasons why the FBI suspected this person, maybe feeling that simple narration of transcripts might have been too boring. However, as with all re-enactments, you then run into scenes like a deposition hearing between the FBI and the suspect that are so dramatized you don't know what was actually said and what was part of the script the production company provided.

I would have preferred if it had been a purely factual documentary, or at least if Netflix had made it more clear that it was so largely re-enacted so I could avoid it all together.

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4 Comments

Peaknik profile
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Peaknik September 12, 2022 at 06:39 am

We know the Anthrax was manufactured at Ft Detrick and they as usual blamed it on rogue insider who alone managed to smuggle it out and mailed it to congress men who were against was in middle east. It was just a continuation of the 9/11 insider crime to usrurp our liberties. Even the blind can see now how corrupt the system is and how WEF wants to rollout communism for the common people

DarkSparks profile
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DarkSparks September 09, 2022 at 02:24 pm

MjrWoodyNY what is your problem?

ShaghaiDoc profile
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ShaghaiDoc September 09, 2022 at 04:23 am

One of the worst biological attacks in U.S. history??? Pales into insignificance in comparison with the US attacks on North Korea last century. Even if one accepts the lunatic theory of Covfefe-45 virus being leaked from a lab, that has been comprehensively proven to be innocent, it was not an attack.

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MjrWoodyNY September 09, 2022 at 01:07 am

And it took.. zero seconds for one moron to bring up covid,, and 3 seconds for a bigger moron to use the term 'woke' again. Pathetically predictable the stupidity.