Reprehensible

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2008)

It's reprehensible that pieces of cow puckey like this can be praised as "excellent." But then I realize that most of the people responsible for these laudatory comments are about 12 and get confused between knowing this movie from the proverbial shinola.
I have read many of the other posted comments, and I agree with what most people are saying: Who really cares about the characters? It is established in the first 5 minutes that every one of them is superficial, vain, and very, very stupid. I can only hope that any corporation that would make the decision to promote one of these dilettantes to an overseas position would be filing chapter 11 quite soon.
All that aside though, what really got to me about this movie is that it makes the destruction of NYC into "entertainment." I was in NYC on a certain Tuesday in September, and believe me there was nothing entertaining about it. For those of you who were pretty young in 2001 should look up some archival material and consider how cool it was when 3,000 people died, and no CGI. Even in a movie like "I Am Legend" the vision was apocalyptic, and treated reverently; not as a backdrop for a bunch of self absorbed idiots.
Oh, and as a New Yorker, I have to make this observation -- why try for the Brooklyn Bridge when that would put you on Long Island, where people would still have to be airlifted or shipped out? I would have tried for the Holland Tunnel which would put you in New Jersey, with the rest of the USA.
JMHO