Made for HBO, PATH TO PARADISE recounts events leading up to the February 1994 bombing of the World Trade Center, as the FBI monitored the plotting terrorists but never caught on to their plans. While it is a well-made, fast-paced thriller, it suffers from the usual problems of the genre,
particularly a superficial depiction of Muslims and the implication that the answer to terrorism is looser police procedures.
FBI Special Agent John Anticlev (Peter Gallagher) is interviewed by a review panel studying how the agency failed to prevent the bombing of the World Trade Center In 1990, Anticlev recounts, he and NYPD Detective Lou Napoli (Paul Guilfoyle) were part of ...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
94 mins