UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

craigwest-91173 Just finished watching this film on Netflix and found it to be one of the best and most concise examinations of world conflict and the contributions made by misguided American foreign policy in concert with transnational corporations. Highly recommended. Whatever ones belief may be about 9/11 and who was ultimately responsible, after my initial shock and horror of that day's events I remember that my first concern was the potential knee-jerk reaction of our own citizens that would morph into a backlash against all foreigners who might appear to be ethnically related to the alleged hijackers. My concerns proved to be well founded, and the profiling attitude prevails to this day.It has been my privilege and pleasure to travel the world extensively, where I have met and worked with some of the nicest people and brightest minds in their respective nations, as well as working with a diversity of such individuals during a ten year professional career in Silicon Valley. Those travels have taken me throughout Asia, Europe, South Asia and the Middle East, including time in Iran, India, Egypt, and China. This film provides the sort of global perspective one must have to fully appreciate the huge misconceptions both here and abroad, and how these misconceptions can rapidly deteriorate into conflicts that become global in nature. And it is always the innocents who are caught in the middle of these conflicts who pay the dearest price.During military service that took me to Vietnam as a U.S. Navy photographer in 1967, '68 and '69 I remember a popular poster of that era that stated, "What if they gave a war and nobody came."

muzammil786 A good depiction and upholding of the opposition to two very extremes: religion and capitalism, which use people for own benefits. The only disappointment is the ignorance of "fundamentals" of Lahore, which was strongly felt through out the film whenever it took us there. The so-called "Lahore University" and the surroundings nowhere matched the reality. The dialogue delivery in Urdu was also sub-standard. I wish they could hire a proper consultant to give them a realistic touch of the place, for which the film was all about. Besides a few technical blunders; the film, crew, acting and music overall is indeed worthy of appreciation.

dvfortune_007 'I need you to listen to the whole story. Do i have your words?...... Yes, you do.' A simple question, however most people never meant it whole-heartedly when they reply with yes, you do. This movie has lots of values highlighted throughout the whole story.A story about a Pakistani young man that growing up from a regular Muslim Pakistan family. As growing up, he has a different view of life than others as he saw the world as what has appointed to him by his family and everything he has seen. He believes he's special to himself and his family and at least he knew he could always be someone bigger he wanted to be. Born in Muslim family, he had experienced the culture of being a Muslim right after he could talk. That culture had become part of himself that he will always venture. letting himself to step little higher than anybody else from his family to chase his dream to be part of something bigger out there was never an easy decision for himself. it's like giving away your pillow away and start to sleep without it for the rest of your life. He believes by chasing his American dream will cost him more than what he can gain but he knew he can do it. He started working for huge consultant company and his hard-work paid off as he gets promoted to be an important decision maker for the company. Then the Sept11 tragedy happened where directly everything changed like a blink of and eye. He felt everyone see him as one of the terrorist. Misunderstanding of people towards his belief planting a anger inside him and until one point, standing up for something he knew he belong to make him quit his job and leave America. Going back to his country and start pouring all his ideas to his people making him felt lived and for some point, felt owned by his people. Living with the driven excitement, suddenly he's approached by a group of people that wanting him to join them in fighting against military by using his power to convince his people which is making him figured that everything applied to single fundamental. A fundamental that driven man to choose a step to change what your belief. A step that follow through with the changes that will change everything forever.This movie has quality that making me look into myself and think for a while over everything that i have experienced in life and how life has changed me. Salute to the creative 'fundamental' person that created this story. You don't know how much you've influence me...

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of a young man who works at Wall Street as a successful analyst, but his bright future is marred by his Pakistani roots amidst of a turbulent political background."The Reluctant Fundamentalist" has two story lines, one in the present Pakistan, the other the reminisced pursuance of the American dream. They are both powerful stories, engaging and thought provoking. Changez's experience in New York after the attack is very sad, as the country descends into high alert. We see his daily encounter with hate and discrimination, and this drives bright, hard working and honest individuals like Changez's to leave America. He goes back to Pakistan to pursue a Pakistani dream, but his American past still haunts him. The ending hopefully stimulates people's thoughts in this highly emotionally charged subject, as people are prone to be clouded by their emotions when making judgements."The Reluctant Fundamentalist" tells the other side of the story in an engaging manner. I certainly sympathise with Changez, and hope his story will not be repeated in the future.