A mediocre movie, at best...

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2006)

Evaluating this movie is not an easy task. This happens because (almost) all of us will be judging this movie having in mind what happened on the 11th of September in 2001. And I think that it is very important to state this. If this movie was supposed to be purely fictional, everyone would judge it differently.
This forces me to address another issue, and not a friendly one: were the events that happened in 11/9/2001 really perpetrated by Islamic terrorists or was this only an excuse for a more sinister truth, as suggested in the movie "Loose Change 2nd Edition"? I will not be discussing what it think is the truth. I have my opinion about that, and you have yours. The thing is, if you believe the "official" version about what happened, you will probably think this is a tribute to those heroic people who stopped the terrorists from crashing another plane. But if you believe the "alternative" version of the story, you will probably not like it because all of it sounds like a big lie.
The bottom line is this: I don't think the movie is bad, but I don't think it is good either. I like the way the movie was shot, with a feeling of "amateur camera" and the actors perform well. But apart from that, there is not much else I can say in favor of this movie. If the story was not supposed to be based on the events that took place on 11/09/2001, it would be rather weak.
And please don't think "but of course this was supposed to portray the events that happened in 11/9/2001, you dummy!" because I would have to say that, in that case, it doesn't look much of a tribute to the memory of those who died, but more like a chance to make some profit out of people's suffering...