
Deep in the Saudi desert, young thrill-seekers at jihadi boot camp sign up to a plot to overthrow the Saudi government. They detonate three horrific car-bombs at Western compounds in downtown Riyadh and become embroiled in a nail-biting game of cat and mouse with government forces. As their plans unravel, they resort to ever more brutal tactics. Exposing the dark side of the human soul, Path of Blood reveals Al Qaeda as you've never seen it before. Using a treasure trove of A... (Full plot summary below)
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Deep in the Saudi desert, young thrill-seekers at jihadi boot camp sign up to a plot to overthrow the Saudi government. They detonate three horrific car-bombs at Western compounds in downtown Riyadh and become embroiled in a nail-biting game of cat and mouse with government forces. As their plans unravel, they resort to ever more brutal tactics. Exposing the dark side of the human soul, Path of Blood reveals Al Qaeda as you've never seen it before. Using a treasure trove of Al Qaeda home-movie footage captured by the security services, this haunting documentary film shows how brainwashed idealism and the youthful pursuit of adventure can descend into madness and carnage.
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| Times (UK)Ed PottonJonathan Hacker's documentary has been criticised for humanising terrorists. It does, but that in no way lessens their monstrousness. If anything it intensifies it. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiPath of Blood is more an immediate experience, and as such succeeds in unexpected ways. The human normality of what it shows is nearly more sickening than the carnage itself. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanIn Path of Blood, the masks come off, and we literally see the faces of Al Qaeda in action, with the propaganda machine turned off. What’s shocking is how ordinary and high-spirited they appear. |
| Time OutSarah BradburyAs eye-opening as it is disturbing, with little in the way of commentary, it’s a patchwork of raw, brutal images that weave a chilling narrative of youthful naivety and adventure being warped into death and destruction. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyThe most fascinating and compromised film of the year. |
| New StatesmanRyan GilbeyThe knowledge that most of what we're seeing is through Al Qaeda's own eyes lends every shot a macabre chill. |
| The Sun (UK)Grant RollingsIt is hard to know whether to laugh or shudder in horror. |
| Film InquiryKristy StrouseTerrorists exist, now, and we're still trying to understand their motives. Path of Blood peels back the black masks and gives us a visceral and frightful look. |
| Shockya.comHarvey S. KartenConsider this a primary source examining the methods of terrorists in the Middle East. |
| ObserverRex ReedPowerful, devastating, depressing and deeply unsettling, the documentary Path of Blood by British filmmaker Jonathan Hacker gives new meaning to the word terror. |