The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Honestly, this movie is exactly what you would expect: people claiming the 9/11 was an inside job, comparing the US government to Nazi Germany, etc. I do not agree with anything stated in this movie, aside from the fact that 9/11 occurred on the day of September 11th.Aside from my disagreements with the messages the director sends, the actual "film" is shot decently enough. The music is conspiracy like and the ''experts'' do not seem too crazy. If you are into the government putting tracking devices into your soup or are a 15 year old rebel, then this movie should be right up your alley. Otherwise, the movie will just upset you, or at the very least waste over an hour of your life.

I've been a skeptic of the 9/11 myth since 9/11/2001, just based on what i saw and heard that day. When i began to learn others questioned the official story i was thrilled to learn more. Then in 2007, when Dylan Avery and Korey Rowe produced their first edition of this documentary i was overwhelmed and have shared the film in its various incarnations with well over a dozen screenings. It always has an impact. I see that other IMDb reviewers have labeled people who challenge the official version of 9/11 as the "tin foil hat brigade," but considering the number of times our government has straight up lied to us and then been caught, i was say the tin foil club are the people who blindly accept whatever swill our government puts out. As Jesse Ventura recently vented on "The View, "My government killed 58,000 of my generation in Vietnam on a lie, what makes you think they wouldn't sacrifice 3,000 to get what they want?" Over the past several years, initial small-timers now transformed into internationally acclaimed activists, Dylan Avery and Korey Rowe have challenged the official story of 9/11 with a series of spectacular documentaries, not just re-edits, but whole new films, continuously evolving their presentation as newer evidence comes in. In a scientific approach, they have formed hypotheses, presented them, and then rejected and replaced them in favor of other approaches as different info comes to light. The several different installments of "Loose Change" have continuously refined the message,tossing aside the more sensational claims made in earlier incarnations and now Avery and Rowe have formed a pretty solid indictment by the time they finished "Loose Change: An American Coup." The problem for me, was i liked the sensational stuff of the earlier versions better. And the breathless narration and the driving music. Once upon a time "Loose Change" was a sensational knockout that felt as subversive as its subject matter, now it's a very good, very serious film. The dilemma for us as audience is that veracity has come at a price of entertainment value, not by much but enough to where it is worth noting if the viewer hasn't seen any other versions. The second edition i felt was the strongest version,though it turns out some of their original assertions didn't hold up. But the pacing and the music of the earlier versions of this film series were so much more entertaining, it is sometimes hard for me to remember the newer editions are "improvements." This most recent edition is also more polished, done with a bigger staff, more elaborate in establishing its veracity and more historically grounded, just not as pulse-pounding. Don't misunderstand though, this series is one of the most important docs ever to circulate and one of the biggest causes in American history and this edition has the best set of facts presented in the most rigorously evaluated way. Show this version to anyone who hasn't seen any versions since its version of the truth is the most probable.All that said, after you've seen their "truest" vision, go back to earlier editions for the more exciting film making. Maybe Avery and Rowe still haven't found all the answers, but they make a solid effort with a series of progressively more professional quality films. I don't know if they'll ever get to the bottom of the mysteries around 9/11, but they've certainly learned how to be movie makes par excellence while on the quest.

The previous editions of Loose change that I had seen were crackpot nonsense. Some of their suggestions, like the idea of phone calls from Flight 93 being fakes, would be laughable if only they hadn't been so insensitive to the families of the soon to be victims.I viewed this at a screening in a venue by the name of 'The Frontline club.' This edition of Loose Change is the best version I have seen. Several of the utterly absurd suggestions, that were presented as undoubted fact in the previous releases, are gone. The narration is far classier as well.However, the dishonesty seen in this 'documentary' is still utterly reprehensible.This film shows no pictures of the remains of flight 77 during the clear up operation and investigation and instead suggests the insane idea of a military plane hitting the pentagon. It focuses on the poor videos and pictures of the impact and prior to the impact and insists there isn't any clear evidence that flight 77 struck the pentagon. But it ignores the flight 77 debris and most of the passenger's DNA that was found at the site of the pentagon.The film suggests that the fireballs and compressed air getting ejected from the towers as they collapsed were actually detonation blasts! It devotes a sizable portion of the film to Stepehn E. Jones, the physicist and now retired professor who never and presents his theory of the twin towers being brought down by controlled demolition as compelling evidence. However it ignores that Jones's theory has been met with criticism by people who do have a background in building collapse forensics and by Brigham Young University's (The university Mr. Jones served at) department of civil environmental and engineering. While it is true that chemicals of thermate were found in the dust, there were natural sources for these chemicals to come from. This documentary is incredibly biased in not dealing with questions raised about Stephen Jone's paper and ideas.The coverage of WTC 7 was disgraceful! To suggest, as this film did, that there were just a few controllable fires in the building while showing footage of only the North face outrageous! While its true most of the footage taken of WTC 7 was taken at the North side, there is fortunately some footage from the South side that shows the extent of the raging fires being hosed down by fireman, and not showing any let up. But unfortunately, none of this was shown.If your looking for a good story and 90 minutes of entertainment, then this is fair enough. The music and editing were good, the narration was well spoken and dramatic. But if you want an assessment of the conspiracy theories out there, I would suggest an impartial program that doesn't deceitfully neglect footage that counters their agenda.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***The writer/director/editor of this film has the narrator state at the end...something along the lines, and I'm paraphrasing since a friend had the copy I saw and I cannot go back and watch or read them...but the simple idea that "at this point in the film, you're either either thinking this is totally incredulous or this is all quite very possible."I have to say, as someone who has been on the scene of many plane crashes and is a pilot to boot, I find it quite plausible that something else happened with possibly the two planes that hit the Pentagon and "crashed" into the ground even at the speed involved in Pennsylvania. As they note in the movie, there is no historical precedence for the absence of wreckage into the ground ever prior to that day on 9-11. And I can tell you as a pilot since we all study plane crashes, so as to not repeat the mistakes...this is actually a fact.Just typing this here makes me kind of paranoid, because people in power...they are capable of the most heinous crimes against humanity.I for one don't doubt for a single second, that men like former VP of the US Dick Cheney would happily expend a few thousand countrymen to further an agenda and line his pockets with gold. Bush didn't seem so smart, but the rest of his family including Grandfather Prescott Bush or however it's spelled, it's historically known that he was part of a group of fascists who offered Major General Smedley Butler $30 million US dollars to lead a fascist coup in 1934 against the then President of the United States.The Congressmen he took this to actually believed him according to the film and web references and the President apparently made a deal with the fascist group to keep himself in power and alive.I believe power can be this corrupting and even today, we see in America, an orchestrated effort to stop progress forward by President Obama, that has actually been proved to be orchestrated by the GOP and loud-mouthed operatives, tasked with coming out to town hall meetings, in the October 2009 Rolling stone magazine.If you're a fan of Fox news, everything the left says is a conspiracy theory and the right-wingers in America are given a pass. Because they would rather jump the gun and sensationalize everything, the truth often never comes out and that's okay with them because Rupert Murdoch actually can save money by playing the same garbage over and over and over and other big corporate owned media outlets have followed this example so we almost never see the truth about anything.Example after example after example is given here to show how it quite possibly was an inside job and if it were able to ever be tracked down and proved by the real patriots in America...like I don't believe very many men and women out of the CIA or the FBI would give corporate America a total pass on this, just like general after general after general retired from our military so they could speak out against the Bush administration, without having to deal with the consequences of making these statements while still in their own seats of power...that tells you something.Not in most of our lifetimes had we seen this, but what these men in 1934 were doing was treason, something we normally string people up for...or imprison for the remainder of their natural lives.Somebody weakened us and our intelligence operations by naming Valerie Plame as a covert operative in the last administration and it wasn't all about Scooter Libby...I mean who wants to spy for a nation which sells out its own agents for spite? Who? But this was treason and somebody other than Libby, was never brought to justice.This is great film and I predict hard to find, but you can order it online and the purchase price even if it were a hundred bucks...it would be well worth the price. Nothing is more priceless than the truth today and Americans are next to clueless as to everything in the world today.Even another documentary my pal had...something like "Outfoxed" which is old news and obviously about Fox news, showed what a bunch of liars and fabricators of the the truth the whole organization is...You cannot believe anything coming out of Newscorp.Here they showed Bill O'Lielly as the left likes to call Mr Sextoy (Google the case against him by an intern he paid off for sexual harassment...makes Clinton look like nothing)reading viewer mail that said something like "show a little respect and quit telling everyone who disagrees with you to shut-up!" to which good old Bill the yarn spinner and liar extraordinaire (however it's spelled) claimed "I've only done that one time in six years" and then they played him doing it like fifty times, once even at a public event. This guy has zero class. I cannot wait until the day, somebody puts this classless piece of trash's head through a wall.I cannot wait. That day is coming...and people like him and Rush Limbaugh and all the rest of the GOP owned operatives will curse the day they were born. Hallelujah! This movie is great food for thought and very worth your time...ten stars all the way.