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House of Saddam
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NR (Not Rated) :: Hbo Home Video ::
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2009-04-14
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4.5/5 (15 Reviews)
3/5
Well-Acted but Somewhat Draggy
by Cary B. Barad (Baltimore, MD)
Based on Disc 1, this is a well-acted but somewhat draggy account of the Saddam years replete with megalomania, pointless assassinations, family intrigues, paranoia and war. Sort of an historical soap opera. Yet, the photography is generally lush and convincing. It will appeal primarily to historians and those with an interest in modern Middle Eastern history. Unfortunately the actor who plays Saddam kept reminding me of an overweight and mustachioed Jeffrey Tambor.
5/5
Great 4 part Miniseries of Saddam BBC and HBO does it right excellent~
by M. Lung (Indiana)
PLOT: 4 PART miniseries by HBO and BBC about Saddam Hussein's raise to power from 1979 until 2005 caputure BRILLIANT~
Ignal Naor is excellent as Saddam~ 4 parts ~ PART ONE~ Saddam gets rid of most of his enemies his a rapid move into the new leader of IRAW using the theme of get rid of any one you suspect any one~ PART TWO: HE arranges a marriage of his oldest daughter to and the groom becomes his new "body guard /security chief." we see the blend of marraige and alliances that give Saddam even more power. ADD to the scene is the out of control son Uday who uses RAPE, drugs and torture. PART THREE: the invasion of Kuwait LEADS TO his two daughters and their hudbands fleeing to Jordan~ Saddam using both pursuasion and intrigue with the promises of a full PARDON AND FORGIVNESS get the two sons in laws back who he promply has KILLED. none the less his daughters now widows at his hand continue to blindly love and obey and support him~ amazing~ PART FOUR: the invasion of Iraq and the hunt for UDAY and Quasay (his sons) are are sold out for [...] and end up dead in a shoot out and the hunt for the very elusive Saddam who hides with two body guards. His little "hole" he hides in is quiet brilliant but the soliders have some informants who give them the "clues" to find the last hiding place of Saddam~ this was based on the Diary of the oldest of Saddams daughters. very well written and outstanding acting~ does not drag and we are glued to it but part four is the BEST~ BBC and HBO does it right~ won an emmy ~ I GIVE IT A 9 OUT OF 10. AND IGNAL NAOR IS 10 OUT OF 10~
5/5
Good Series
by S. Zoubi (Cali)
I really enjoyed this mini-movie and history slid about Iraq/Hussien. They missed many events, but overall, very good
I really enjoyed it.
4/5
Good, but misses a lot
by James D. Crabtree (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba)
As a production this is an awesome film. The acting is superb (expecially the actor who played Udai... he made a convincing psycho) and while not as wide-ranging as I would have liked it did make a convincing show of the progress of history.
With that being said, there is much which is left unsaid. The movie begins with the point where Saddam, then Vice-President of Iraq, deposes the sitting president. However, Saddam's struggle for power began significantly earlier. In 1959 he had attempted to assassinate Qassim in, the military dictator who himself overthrew Faisal II. He sprayed bullets indiscriminately and apparantly ruined the planned attack. He managed to escape and in 1963 he became head of Iraq's security apparatus following a Ba'athist coup. He had a reputation for routinely using torture and terror against potential enemies and his role in that regime probably led to its overthrow. When the Ba'ath returned Saddam took measures to ensure that true democracy would never be a feature of Iraq. These things are not discussed in the movie at all, except for a brief couple of minutes in which an Iraqi movie is being made about Saddam's life.
Very little is made of the cult of personality that Saddam initiated after he assumed the role of President. You see billboards on the street and that sort of thing but Saddam's image was everywhere: stamps, books, watch faces, monuments, money... just about anything would have Saddam's image or a quotation from him. Nothing is shown of the secret police either, when an off-handed comment could land you in a prison and might even cost you your life.
The timeline of the story is usually correct but the events surrounding Desert Storm are off. At one point the Iraqis are talking about the Coalition crossing into Kuwait and how they would soon be crossing into Iraq. In fact, the far left wing of the line was the first to jump off, directly into Iraqi territory in order to reach the Euphrates and cut off the bulk of Iraq's army (I know because I was there, with the XVIII ABN Corps). Saddam gave the order for the Republican guard to pull back to Baghdad but in fact the guard, which was sitting astride the Kuwaiti/Iraq border, was waiting to go SOUTH and was already in the process of being engaged by VII Corps. All the RGC divisions were hit and several virtually ceased to exist after Coalition armor got through with them.
Another funny line from that scene is Qusay's comment that the regular Iraqi army units were retreating and "not even the Americans would attack retreating troops." Somehow, I don't thing these words passed the lips of one of Saddam's ruthless henchmen.
The sudden surprise cease-fire is another joke. You can bet the cease-fire was directly authorized by Saddam: someone else didn't have to tell him about it. Also, Coalition forces did not begin withdrawing on the day of the cease-fire... further forces were held back but the lines held for a couple of weeks.
Nothing is said of the uprisings north and south, even though one group of Iraqi dissidents ambushed Udai's vehicle and badly injured him. Even if this is mostly supposed to be about Saddam's family, THAT fact should have been mentioned. He walked with a limp after that.
Finally, during the part of the film that looks at the Coalition effort to find Saddam after the fall of Baghdad, a captured Iraqi is unhooded and it looks as if he has been beaten during interrogation. This is a flat-out lie. I would like to know if that information is supposedly published somewhere or if the film maker added it because "everybody knows that's what Americans do."
I still give this four stars for its acting and production values. But while it is entertaining it is hardly a thorough depiction of this story.
4/5
SELF MADE MAN
by J. Walker
WELL DIRECTED, PRODUCED AND FILMED, GOOD ACTING, SPINE CHILLING RECONSTRUCTION OF AN EVIL REGIME AND ALARM BELL FOR MANKIND.
House of Saddam Summary
Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 04/14/2009 Run Time: 260 Minutes Rating: R
In this gripping four-hour docudrama, any resemblance between Saddam Hussein and a certain New Jersey mob boss may not be a coincidence. Co-produced by the BBC and broadcast on HBO,
House of Saddam
portrays Saddam (Igal Naor) as part Tony Soprano, part Michael Corleone, and part Keyzer Soze. Early on, he ruthlessly kills his closest friend to intimidate his enemies ("The man who can sacrifice even his best friend is a man without weakness," he rationalizes to his wife). Framed by America's invasion of Iraq, and concluding with Saddam's capture in that now-infamous hole,
House of Saddam
chronicles the rise and fall of a tyrant, whose decades of deceit and cruelty devastated a nation and threw the volatile and unstable region into further turmoil. In some scenes,
House of Saddam
takes its cue from Saddam's reported admiration of the
Godfather
films. In the first hour, a coup against Iraq's sitting president is carried out during Saddam's daughter's birthday party. Soon after, Saddam puts a wicked twist on the Corleone maxim about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. In Saddam's version, it's keep your friends close and your enemies close enough for your friends to shoot point blank. Beyond inferences of an unhappy childhood and a mother who makes Livia on
The Sopranos
look like June Cleaver, there is scant attempt to psychoanalyze Saddam or explore what makes him tick. It is more a portrait etched in blood of power corrupting absolutely. There are no heroes and few sympathetic characters in this
House
. Saddam's wife (Oscar-nominee Shoreh Aghdashloo) is an increasingly pitiable object as she falls from her husband's favor and he takes a married schoolteacher as his mistress (an aide warns her husband not to object, promising "compensation"). Philip Arditti is chilling as Saddam's eldest son, Uday, a psychopathic rapist and murderer, who gives even his father pause. By the third hour, when Saddam is making a copy of the
Quran
written in his own blood, the writing is on the wall for this megalomaniac. In the final hour, as we watch George Bush on TV assuring the Iraqi people that "the day of your liberation is near," we can't help cheering, "What are you waiting for?"
--Donald Liebenson
House of Saddam [2 Discs] DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Shohreh Aghdashloo
,
Makram Khoury
,
Amr Waked
,
Christine Stephen-Daly
Director:
Alex Holmes
Array
Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1
Rated:
NR (Not Rated)
Running Time:
240 mins
UPC:
883929061631
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Hbo Home Video
Release Date:
2009-04-14
Region Code:
1
Specs:
Closed-captioned, DVD, Miniseries, Widescreen, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
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