Art Malik, Andreas Katsulas, Shaun Toub and Tony Gillan are among those who plan and carry out the attack all of whom play their roles not as potential clichés but as real living people and make the film all the better for it. Peter Gallagher and Marcia Gay Harden lead the cast as FBI agents John Anticev and Nancy Floyd who face not only the threats of terrorism but the lack of official interest from their superiors along with their NYPD counterpart Lou Napoli (Paul Guilfoyle). Path To Paradise features a nice cast of believable actors. First shown four years after the first bombing of the twin towers (and four years before the events of 9/11) Path To Paradise reveals the series of close encounters, blunders and official in-decisions that led to the first bombing of the twin towers and the lessons we should have learned from them. By the time I finished it the old saying "those who can not learn from the past are doomed to relive it" was echoing in the mind. Having finally been able to get the DVD of this 1997 HBO film, is at down to watch it. The very ending itself is so powerful as well as prophetic that it would leave you in a state of shock in knowing what we know today and possibly in need to have someone who's with you, but not watching the movie, to call for medical attention. All I can say about this film is don't watch it alone. I found this movie harder to watch after the events of 9/11 then the video of the attacks of 9/11 themselves. Still it took another eight years to realize that we should have learned from that first WTC attack to be more vigilant and ready to prevent the second and far more devastating assault on the World Trade Center to happen. The film brought out everything that went wrong back in 1992-93 that allowed that first tragedy at the WTC to happen. ![]() Bone chilling since we all know now that the terrorists who were apprehended at the end of the movie weren't going to be the end of our nightmare that resurfaced on September 11, 2001. An unbelievable and timely movie about the first attack on the World Trade Center on Februand how the government agencies who's job it is to identify and stop terrorists from doing harm and damage to American citizens and American property completely fell down on the job and unwittingly allowed it to happen. If anyone somehow comes across it in a video store just grab it before someone else does, because I doubt if it ever will be re-released again. We'll never see this movie broadcast by HBO in the near future if at all.
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