The Price of Honor (2014) User Reviews

Horrific

[smartinezmd · 8/10 · 25 June 2020]

It was hard for me to watch. There is one lone review which gave the doc 1 star. That's a bit harsh; however, everything that the reviewer stated was absolutely true. The film was done sloppily and more should have been said about Sara - the other sister - who was shot as well.

The 'mother' of these two young sisters is repulsive. A low life who does not deserve to draw breath on this planet. Despicable.

Very moving

[jaycop · 8/10 · 22 August 2019]

I cant type in this review about the things I want to do to that horrible mother of those two girls... she should be in jail as accomplice.

Incredibly Difficult Viewing

[helenahandbasket-93734 · 6/10 · 23 August 2020]

Brace yourself, this is a tough and incredibly difficult film to view.

You'll find yourself enraged, engulfed in absolute terror, and feelings of absolute chaos at the hands of an irredeemable murderer of a father and what can only be described as an ignorant, stupid and completely narcissistic mother.

If not for the complete and utter betrayal of a mother who could only see her own wants and supposed needs, her daughters are still here- I cannot express enough how much seething anger I feel for this complete waste of a human being.

Within ten minutes you will know the final outcome and it feels as if you're watching a D-level made for TV movie, instead of a true story that has us still looking for this monster of a man and for some ungodly reason, the facilitator in their mother who is not being held accountable for her part in their deaths and is residing with the family of the murderer who has still avoided capture.

It was tough to watch this film but it is a story still happening around the globe, and within the US with shocking regularity. A bit more into the sister would have been good as well as the psychotic mother and incredible denial.

Very intimate, very personal, very awesome

[juliaauthor · 10/10 · 19 April 2014]

I usually don't write reviews but I was lucky to be invited to a private screening. It's definitely a very interesting topic, "Honor Killings".

The film gets into the story of Sarah and Amina, two girls who were killed by their father and then he run away. The film keeps you interested through the whole almost two hours. I don't want to drop any spoiler but there is much more than the topic and they show their own theory and investigation after the killer.

Be ready to be shocked and make sure you get a box of tissue before you start watching. I really hope the film gets a lot more exposure. Definitely a worth film to watch.

It Did What It Intended to Do

[dv727 · 9/10 · 3 March 2022]

I don't disagree with many of the other reviewers who are critical of how the film was put together, or how much time it spent with one sister as opposed to the other, or some other storyline/technical aspects of it. I wonder if, to some extent, they were limited in who they could talk to or who would talk to them (for example, did Sara have a boyfriend/boyfriend's family who would talk? Were there people who were "close" enough to Yeser and its herd to provide more info?) Having said that, when I finished watching this movie, I saw the sperm donor ("father" if we were talking about a human) and womb provider ("mother" with the previous caveat) as unmitigated evil and off-the-chart stupidity, respectively. I felt for the friends and relatives of the girls, and grieved for them and the girls. To that extent, this movie was an overwhelming success, and worth the 9 I gave it.

I was aware Yaser and accomplices were recently captured. Thankful TX is a death penalty state.

Insight into awful situation

[scubawoman-37367 · 19 February 2022]

The father is despicable, obviously. What father films their daughters ass and says nice and I got my eye on you. The mother was just as complicit, making the children recant the abuse confession and bringing them back to that man. She still won't own her responsibility in the documentary she lies, she's disgusting.

Their Mother and Local Authorities Failed

[ttgttg · 6/10 · 23 April 2023]

Now that Yaser Said, Islam Said and the girls' uncle have been convicted, I hope a more detailed documentary is produced. It should more explicitly cover how the girls' mom and the local authorities also failed them.

I agree with others who have stated that the storytelling is a bit all over the place. I think it's partly because the Irving Police Department and other local authorities were unwilling to talk. The documentary also primarily tells Amina's story and not Sarah's. However, I'm glad someone had the courage to take the time to tell the story of what happened. There's just so much more that needs to be examined and exposed.

12 years of freedom is nothing compared to......

[itzsue-14484 · 8/10 · 20 April 2022]

12 years free. Said will be burning in HELL FOREVER.

And Patricia Owens Said is even dumber than Anna Duggar.

Don't buy those FAKE TEARS their mother wipes away in their story. It is largely Patricia's fault that they are dead.

So sad

[gallagherkellie · 7/10 · 17 August 2021]

I remember seeing this on the news and finding it so shocking. But then to watch this documentary shows truly how horrific and shocking it was. It feels made up because it's so hard to believe but unfortunately that's not the case. I also agree with other viewers that Sarah wasn't spoken about enough, but the documentary was short, gripping And informative.

Horrible

[pearsonkbelinda · 9/10 · 4 July 2022]

I'm sorry but I blame the mother who put herself first. Why would you go back just to have your girls killed. She felt guilty about leaving her husband. That's horrible.

Great Documentary/Heart Gripping

[thejesuscat · 9/10 · 6 August 2022]

If you watch this please be aware of this one heart wrenching horrific factor: the mother. Powerful documentary. Extremely informative. Heartbreaking.

Lots of missing pieces

[ivvanabarac · 2/10 · 24 February 2021]

This documentary describes what is undoubtedly a terrible tragedy. The people they had on did a great job telling their stories of Amina and Sarah.

But let's be real... it could have been done so much better. The interviews were really sloppy and pieced together in a very mediocre way. What bothered me the most was that Sarah wasn't talked about at all? I seriously question WHY they focused so much on the other sister and didn't give Sarah an ounce of acknowledgment. Besides here and there dialogue about her... where's the rest? This is proved by the ending when a person brings one bouquet of roses for Amina and just tears some off for Sarah...

I don't know.. something felt so off about this. But regardless I think we can agree their mother is a pathological liar who doesn't know her a** from her elbows.

Wow this one shakes your heart

[HumbleMensa · 9/10 · 2 December 2023]

This is an awful, tragic story and it's one of the better documentaries of this type out there that I've ever run across. This one actually tells a story from a humble perspective following a storyline versus choppy bits and pieces that many documentary productions seem to follow. The footage is well spliced, the commentary is filmed well in a conversational interview manner and none of it seems staged or pre written. I won't go into detail because it will ruin the emotion that needs to be and should be experienced while watching this. If your eyes aren't opened by this one, I don't know what will open them. Definitely worth my time and my thoughts are with those families.

Really difficult to watch.

[jjernsberger · 8/10 · 21 September 2022]

This doc is really difficult to watch. The doc itself is not too bad. The structure is decent (a little wonky and out of place sometimes), and the content itself is . But what really bothers me is the mother. This woman is just as guilty as the father. She's a lying, manipulative, horrible human being. These poor girls were set up by their mother, and murdered by their father. The mother has continued to be shown to be liar.

I personally don't believe this to be an "honor killing." I think it was an example of a pedophilic father who could not control have complete control of his daughters, so he did what was necessary to take control. I hope he is found jailed.

An American Horror Story of the Worst Kind

[rovinnomire-62619 · 9/10 · 22 May 2022]

Helplessness. Frustration. Repulsion. Rage. Grief. Emptiness. And sadness - a deep, lingering sadness that grips you and wont let go.

These are but a taste of the myriad of intense emotions that the story of Amina and Sarah Said will take hold in your heart, and stay with you long after it has played out to its conclusion.

For me its been since that night long ago, likely sometime in 2008, when the tragedy of the Said sisters first came to light on America's Most Wanted. This docudrama begins with that tape - that 911 tape I first heard on AMW. That tape was presented on that first airing, and replayed on repeated airings as the hunt for Yaser Said continued for months, then years. That tape has haunted me until this very day. Admittedly, hearing it again brought forth all those emotions again in an instant, and tears started to flow. All the questions that originated from that night came flooding back - the main one being "How can this happen here in America?" And yet in the ensuing years we've come to know that it was all too real -- that Yaser was, and is, one of the most despicably evil souls ever to walk our American shores.

You cannot have a shred of decency in you and not feel rage toward the so-called father of these two teen girls, and toward his family of protectors. You will also feel intense emotion over the continued denial of their cowardly American mother. Part of us can understand it was her self-preservation kicking in, based on a very real fear over what could happen to her. But still, its all so inexcusable.

You will also come to understand - as much as it can be understood - the cultural discrepancies that exist that would allow a crime such as this to ever be acceptable on any level.

The team that put this together did a solid job, no doubt at times putting themselves at great risk from a family of brothers and those who would help to protect them at any cost. I commend them for their determination to doing this right, and seeing it through to what was at the time in 2013 an empty conclusion.

One weakness of this film is it puts heavy emphasis on the older sister Amina, while keeping Sarah in the distant background for most of it. While they had full access to Amina's boyfriend and his mother, its likely they were unable to get cooperation from the family of Sarah's love interest. One can fully understand a family's apprehension to participate in this due to the risk it would entail.

The one satisfying factor in all of this is that a resolution finally came about in 2020. I dont feel its any type of spoiler to add this, as it would be common knowledge to anyone who has followed the case over the years.

Sarah and Amina, I pray for your souls. You didnt deserve the fate you encountered. But you have touched so many hearts with your vibrancy, your spirit, your love of life. Neither of you will ever be forgotten. Certainly not by me. Not for a moment.

Documentary does not honor the life of the victims

[docnrse · 5/10 · 6 October 2021]

This documentary about the murder of two young, teen sisters by their psychopathic father with approval of their mentally-challenged mother succeeds in telling the story of what happened. It contains clips & photos of their lives and numerous interviews with friends and family. It contains interviews, police reports, and even the actual call to 911 and the last words of one of the sisters. The story of what happened is horrific and disgusting beyond belief.

However, the film itself was not well-made. Numerous photos, notes, videos of the "pretty" sister, only a few of the "tomboy" sister. Rambling interviews that are not interesting and shed very little light on the subject. Lots of shots of documents like phone records and police reports with barely any explanation leaves the viewer to have to try to read the tiny print and figure out what it means. Even when there were explanations on the screen, the font was hardly discernable from the print it was next to. Visually this just wasn't effective.

The portrayal of the Irvington Texas police and 911 dispatch implies they are idiots and not working on finding the cowardly father Yasser. Truly, what with Texans always bragging on themselves, it seems like they should have been able to arrest this guy by now. There are hundreds of photos and videos of him. And to not be able to come up with anything to arrest the despicable mother Patricia (Tissy)? She lures her two daughters directly to the coward of a father and he immediately shoots them to death, but the police don't think she is an accomplice?

But back to the film itself. There's a painful middle part wherein a woman, with the most monotone voice, drones on about the definition of honor killings, like she's making a public service announcement on cable access. Then the cringy ending in which the mother of the boyfriend of one of the girls (can you guess which girl?) visits the cemetery to put flowers on the "pretty" girl's grave and whine about how ugly the cemetery is and cry and what not. What was the point of that overly long segment? Filling time?

The interviews should have been edited to be interesting. Interviews with people who had nothing interesting to say should have been cut (their blond teacher offers nothing to the film, their teenaged friend had nothing substantial to say, etc). All still shots of phone records and other documents should have explanation with them. To just show them and let us figure it out (or not) was just lazy.

This film should have been an hour, tops. This film should have spoken on the lives of the victims equally. This film should have included explanation for why abused wives behave the way they do. According to this film and the "experts" they interviewed, this wasn't an honor killing either (which in themselves are despicable and horrific). The cowardly father is just a low-life abusive loser who can't handle not being able to control the people around him.

Again, this isn't clear in the film, but it would seem the Texas police or Fox News are the ones that decided to call these cowardly murders "honor killings." Perhaps because this is a descriptor that signals how they want people to react with outrage against immigrants of a certain religion? At least the film does contain a small segment about how the cowardly "father" was not religious and the abusive mother would lie about what religion she identified with when it suited her.

If anyone actually reads this review, keep track of the main important factor - that two teen girls, Sarah and Amina, had their lives stolen from them by abusive parents who, to this day, in Texas, in the USA, hide from police behind boarded up windows and No Trespassing signs, with no justice served.

Very disorganized and unfocused

[linnmering · 4/10 · 4 September 2022]

As a true crime documentary this is a quite bad production. There is next to no actual proof except for the text's and email's from Amina. The rest is basically hearsay. In my opinion there was to little facts, and not enough focus on Sarah. Literally almost the entire documentary was dedicated towards Amina. I do feel that they should have put more focus on the actual crime itself, and the aftermath of it.

I do however appreciate what they were trying to do. In the aspect of making the story about the victims and not the perpetrator, the makers of this documentary really succeeded. I felt real sympathy towards Amina, Sarah and Joseph.

Other than that the camera quality was ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!!! Seriously, couldn't they have made this with a better camera? And edited this better?

Brainless Blob

[beth-49740 · 5/10 · 9 August 2022]

What's the 'mother' doing at there funeral why wasn't she arrested. It's not an excuse but it was made clear nothing to do with F'n religion. Normally, sick people you can be for sure told they were 'religious. Huge amount more people have been murdered in the name of their 'god' then any other reason. These people can't even use that failsafe excuse. If that brainless Blob 'mother' still around telling her to stick her boohoo tissue down her throat and choke on it. It's useless to keep watching this. You can be sure they'll squish this into and under religious protection. 'Oh they believe in God! They can do whatever they want'

Interesting, but a bit choppy

[shvjtbzh · 5/10 · 7 January 2023]

This was really interesting, incredibly heartbreaking. I feel like there was not a lot included about Sarah, and most of this was about Amina. Certainly well researched with a lot of valuable footage, including emails from Amina. I thought it would have more to do with honor killings, and I was hoping it would shed more light/information, and I was disappointed when this was not mentioned until closer to the end, and without much context. This was murder, regardless of anything. It makes me wonder why more isn't being done with looking into the mother and other siblings, it seems like a significant tragedy like this would prompt a larger response from law enforcement, the media, etc. Where is law enforcement...? I can appreciate this film for raising awareness on this horrific crime. Those two smart, beautiful girls deserve to be remembered for the amazing people that they were. I wish that their achievements were discussed more in this film.

I hope that monster is caught.