Lacking, but I don't know where.

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2009)

I have just recently watched this (much vaunted) film and found it lacked *something* but I couldn't quite work out where. The film doesn't rely on heart-wrenching phone calls (like Flight 93) but focuses on the confusion and impotence, of air traffic control and a military command centre that cannot quite grasp what is going on. Very true I am sure, who the heck trains for such an event? Yet it leaves the viewer feeling cold rather than emotional. The lack of govt. and indeed military response maybe the point, but when has that been news? The passengers and crew, having realised the situation are given just enough due credit for their actions, but it all seems to come to little too late in the movie. Upon reflection perhaps what was portrayed may have been realistic, but just too sterile.