In an exciting atmosphere, this documentary presents some details about those guys who spent long time in the desert planning the detonations that they did in downtown Riyadh. They consider themselves as jihadists who have to do this terrible things. But the Saudi government never let them to do that destabilization.
As eye-opening as it is disturbing, with little in the way of commentary, it's a patchwork of raw, brutal images that weave a chilling narrative of youthful naivety and adventure being warped into death and destruction.
This is frequently a difficult film to watch, but it remains an essential historical document, with something to say about the banality of evil and the way naïve young men are radicalised.
Although some of its structural manipulations seem a little dubious, this even-handed documentary remains a chilling examination of contemporary terror networks.
Terrorists exist, now, and we're still trying to understand their motives. Path of Blood peels back the black masks and gives us a visceral and frightful look.
For 90 random and often bloody minutes, we're dunked into the raw life of Al Qaeda. A little of this can go a long way, yet "Path of Blood" does have a verité "thriller" element.
