Path of Blood

Path of Blood is an unconventional documentary. Its use of personal footage filmed by strikingly young followers of radical Islam seems to make it all the more impactful. Narration is completely unbiased and neutral, allowing the viewer to form their own opinion as things pan out, and it's not afraid to show you the raw parts, or clips that are gory - this is the unfiltered reality of the situation. More people ought to see this film; it both humanises and exposes. Real food for thought.

It reminded me of Four Lions only that was a spoof whilst this unfortunately was very real. Still when the suicide bomber in his car full of explosives runs out of petrol just before reaching the target one couldn't help thinking whether the whole thing was not a set up. Sadly it wasn't and what's truly terrifying about it is there are plenty of people out there who can't wait to blow themselves up for their god in order to clinch a place in heaven. The West better look out I reckon.

I was looking really looking forward to watching this documentary but ended up so disappointed! I have watched a great deal of documentary programs over the years and, a number of them have been about the arrogant nature of religious factions; including the cruel and unnecessary Al Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban etc. It seriously lacked in detailed and informative info/directive from the narrator; 50% of the reason why it came across in such a droll and utterly boring style. As such it made me think that this is not the style of documentary makers/narrators from the West therefore, something else had to be going on. The Saudi Royal family (the government of their country) was the only conclusion I could theoretically come up with. I say this because I had a continuous feeling all the way through that this was a feature length advert for Saudi self glorification. I have seen it happen so many other times when the subject involves Saudi Arabia. I'm not going to say any more except how can you send, so called, special forces personnel (who always appeared in this to be numbering about 50 or more) that end up leaving peoples homes, businesses etc utterly blown to pieces...and the area looking like a bombed out Stalingrad. Special Forces are small stealth groups who act in well planned missions whereas the views here looked totally chaotic and gave the terrorists too much information. A good narration would have made this BORING doc so much more gripping and entertaining!

This is not an easygoing film, as you might imagine. Taken from archival footage from Al Qaeda we get a deep look into terrorist organisation operations in the early to mid 90s. Fascinating stuff.