Product Description

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2005 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33789 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 88 minutes

Customer Reviews

No series, but a good pilot nonetheless!
Homeland Security brings to the screen the events that brought about 9/11 and the subsequent establishment of the Homeland Security Department.
The film goes back and forth between events in the U.S. and abroad following the lives of those people that played a role (direct or indirect) in laying the foundation for what became the coordinator of intelligence agencies.
Scot Glenn, Tom Scerritt, and the rest of the cast, carry out their performances very well, and the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few thrills, not to mention a few tears.
The acting, the setting, the plot, the dialogues, and the music are overall good.
Even though the series never materialized, Homeland Security is worth watching as it will surely provide for an evening's entertainment.

9/11 story
Homeland Security lives up to what had happened on that day. From the views of the writers director & producer as to what had happened and what had happened for days after. Good action/drama movie for you that enjoy the type, I enjoyed it GREATLY!!! Have watched several times since I bought it. A good investment in action/drama movies.

A Bumpy Ride Through an Attempt to Explain 911
Television pilots that fail to be picked up as series are showing up on the shelves as movies and the transition is all too apparent. HOMELAND SECURITY was supposed to be a series for TV, a form of explaining how the Department of Homeland Security came into being after the tragedy of 911. The 'film' version is mildly instructive, mildly entertaining, and in the end it is a hodge podge of ideas of how a long series might run crammed into 87 minutes.

What begins as a diatribe against the lack of cooperation and interaction among the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence (lower case intended!) suggesting that had their been centralization of information, perhaps 911 could have been prevented, ends up as a sprawling mélange of ill-connected pieces. The problems arise in attempting to explain the intricacies of the schisms in Afghanistan (a lot of pyrotechnique footage for this confusing section) along with the preludes of terrorist sub rosa influx into the country, footage from the 911 events, and personalization of some of the perpetrators and victims - all in compressed time broken by obvious black screen moments where TV commercials were placed.

The cast (Tom Skirett, Scott Glenn, Grant Show, Marisol Nichols, et al) tries hard to make the fuzzy script (written by Christopher Crowe) work, but the direction by Daniel Sackheim is jittery and ultimately seems to sell out to the political Right - probably at the demand of the non-cable TV network. Probably at the inception of the idea of tracing the evolution of Homeland Security as a force more intelligent in centralization of information was a good idea. It just gets too watered down and relies on the repetition of the line 'it was all there in front of us waiting for us to connect the dots'. Still, some food for thought. Grady Harp, August 05