Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I watched this back when it came out on DVD and only vaguely remembered it until watching it again now on Tubi.It reminds me of Sleeper Cell and Homeland which are two awesome shows.It twists and turns and has great acting.Well worth the time.

Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) is a Sudanese-American devout Muslim. He's trying to sell Semtex explosives to Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui) in Yemen. They are arrested by the local military. FBI agents Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) and Max Archer (Neal McDonough) try to recruit Samir but he rejects them. They start zeroing in on him as a terrorist. In prison, he stands up to a vicious criminal in defense of a weak prisoner. Omar accepts the pious former American soldier Samir into his group. They break out of prison and work towards a coordinated attack in America with sleeper cells. Suddenly, it's revealed that Samir is working with Carter (Jeff Daniels) from US Intelligence deep undercover without anybody's knowledge.Don Cheadle makes this compelling by his will of personality. The story is much less compelling. It reveals the twist quite early. Frankly, I was wondering if there is going to be another twist where Samir actually turns out to be a real terrorist. By doing the reveal, the FBI story is defanged. It would have been better to stay on Cheadle throughout the entire movie.

what a thought provoking movie,, it really makes you think about what is going on today in the Middle East ,, Afghanistan, all of those places. Jihadists are a tricky bunch you don't wanna make them mad,, apparently our main character Semir seemed to feel betrayed, and decided that he was gonna single handedly get back at all of those who had done him and his religion wrong for so many years,, interesting footage of a might be Jihadist might do in a terrorist situation,, like making a bomb for instance,, um the suicidal bomber,, stuff like that,, this movie is not so much into action as it is more of a political thriller type,, it shows the emotions of many of the jihadists and what they are going thru,, i'm not sympathizing with them i'm just saying some of it is interesting to see what happens from their point of view.

Okay, so now we know not all Muslims are devils - well, only stupid ignorant people thought (and still think) that in the first place.This film was all over the place - literally - many locations, quick cuts, exotic places, all felt real.That's about it.It lost my interest as soon as it was clear that the lead character was a mole - then it was just another film about a mole, and boring at that.Maybe I've watched too many films to get excited over this one.Maybe it's because I'm not American, yeah yeah, the government can and will protect its people (except for the bus driver...), a little too propaganda-ish for my taste.I found myself wanting to see a film about the bombers, they seemed like ordinary nice people, why would they want to do a thing like that.And sure, the terrorist gang leaders would employ a former special agent - haha And sure, the FBI agent would type the NAME of a most wanted person as a reply to an e-mail with vital information - and the terrorists didn't intercept THAT...they had access to everything else. And sure, it's so easy to knock out strong men with one blow to the head....and the only way to meet a girlfriend is in a public place....I will stop here, of course there are faults in every movie, but this one wanted to be smart, well, it wasn't.I agree with the one thing: That it's not about religion. There is good and bad in every 'holy' book, and there is good and bad in people. Books don't kill people.