Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

chicagopoetry I actually saw Reflecting Pool on YouTube/movies, and had never heard of it before then. It's too bad this movie is so boring, because the premise is good. A Russian-American journalist is assigned to write a story about what really happened on 9/11, by the publisher of an independent magazine that is about to go corporate who wants to go out with a bang. The problem is that if this movie was set in the real world, all our hero would need to do is slip a copy of Loose Change into the VHS (yes, he uses a VHS not a DVD) and in an hour or so he would have all the evidence that he grudgingly uncovers throughout this nearly two hour yawn generator.Just about every scene is the journalist sitting with some expert who is repeating nearly verbatim stuff that was revealed in Loose Change or in any number of other 9/11 documentaries. No new evidence is revealed whatsoever. Whoever made this film forgot that although based on facts it is a work of fiction. It would have been quite exciting if the journalist uncovered some hard evidence and then found himself in peril. Movies like Primer showed us that films don't need a big budget to be engaging. But instead, Reflecting Pool simply dredges up the same bullet points that have already been discussed but never answered for years, while changing the names of the sources (Popular Mechanics is repeatedly referred to as "that Mechanics science magazine").I'd like to see this movie redone or better yet, a movie told from the inside depicting the theories of how it was done. This movie should be REALLY scary as the journalist uncovers what at least seems to be the truth about 9/11, but instead it's too busy trying to convince the viewer instead of convincing the protagonist.

EmmanuelPerson This film is the perfect medium to get people thinking about 9/11, the event, the contradictions and its legacy. It manages to pack so many astounding facts about 9/11 and present them in a gripping manner.I especially like the way viewers get to live through the hurdles faced by other concerned journalists and citizens investigating 9/11. For example, the hit-piece by the "Bare Facts" O'Reilly-esk news sequence with the sullying 'expert' is very fitting.Producing a movie on such a controversial and under-reported topic must've been tough. But it was well worth it and should be an inspiration to all of us.

krice43 A failure artistically and as education.This docudrama depicts a search for the truth about the events of 9/11. It takes place in 2006, and, apparently, only 3 people in the world are skeptical enough about the 'official story' to decide to investigate it. The main character is a magazine journalist who has a few weeks in which to write an article exposing the truth. This is not helpful to the 9/11 Truth movement, since by 2006 many thousands of people were interested and/or investigating and hundreds of books and DVDs had been published on the topic.As if that's not bad enough, the acting is pretty bad and the writing is pedestrian.

Roald Pettersen We will never know for sure who was behind the assassination of JFK. We will never know for sure what really happened in Roswell. And we will definitely never know what really happened on 9/11. The U.S. is what it has always been. If this really was a conspiracy, it will long since have been so well covered up that not even Washington Post can disclose it.After all the conspiracy theories (they even have their own websites), this film was a great disappointment with just a repetition of some highlights. It does not even attempt to make any dramatization. There are no effects; just two middle-aged men talking to each other and interviewing some chosen people.A bad thing about America is that Watergate could happen at all. A good thing is that it was exposed. And that it inspired films like "All the President's Men", "Nixon" and "Wag the Dog".