The Report

Written and Directed by Scott Z. Burn

Rating: 🔥 that’s hot

Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) is assigned the task to research the CIA’s enhanced interrogation practices that were implemented amid post-9/11 national security threats. But the information uncovered in this senate-sponsored investigation shocks everyone. How can the United States be cruelly using tactics that it vehemently condemns in foreign countries? And are the methods effective, and/or necessary to keep Americans safe?

This film is a lot. If you are squeamish with blood, guts, torture, etc., just be warned that this movie contains a lot of it. However, it’s use is effective in challenging the viewer to consider the all-important question “How far is too far in the name of national security?”. Adam Driver’s performance, as always, is amazing. He captures the obsessive need to discover and deliver the truth perfectly. The pace of the movie lulls, as one would expect when watching a movie about a small team that spent years in a confined space with no windows pouring over thousands and thousands of CIA documents. When punctuated by flashback scenes to the torture of detained security threats the audience is reminded that these documents are so much more than just paper, they are the real experiences of real people. Regardless of your political views or your opinions on national security I think this movie is an important watch for any American.

Review written by Zianna Weston