DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)

Written by conservative English/Canadian film maker Lionel Chetwynd, this film is a propaganda-type curio from a time when George W. Bush was still mostly admired by the American public. Chetwynd interviewed the actual Bush administration participants about their handling of the immediate aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, so not surprisingly all the Republicans come off as supremely competent (especially Don Rumsfeld), though not so much with the Democrats (a heel-dragging Tom Daschle). Here the Bush team are very much the Olympian Gods we wanted them to be after 9/11. Suffice it to say, this Showtime movie will not be the definitive account of the governments handling of 9/11. Timothy Bottoms, who played a buffoonish George W. on Comedy Central’s short-lived That’s My Bush (2001), here plays the President as a kind of savoir figure. Also amusingly two performers who played corrupt political figures on the series 24 show up as part of Bush’s inner-circle. Fair.

And so ends our 2006 reviews.