Typical Oliver Stone....which is not a compliment!

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2007)

This movie is pure Oliver Stone......long on melodrama, short on factual accuracy! How necessary was it (for example), for Stone to devote so much screen time, to showing the families of the 2 trapped officers bickering, and being worried? Yes, we already figured out that the families of the lost would be worried, scared, and short tempered! So...... showing all this, immediately causes the movie to degenerate into something you would expect to see from those formulaic Lifetime Network 2 hanky jobs, that they pump out like containers of ice cream, at a Breyers factory. All the ingredients of a Stone movie are here.......reaction shots....CHECK........flashbacks to happier times....CHECK........factual errors.......CHECK and double CHECK! I suggest that you skip this movie, and keep an eye out for all the excellent documentaries that have been made about the tragedy, and will undoubtedly be shown every anniversary week. They contain real footage, excellent reporting of the facts of each hijacked plane, survivor, and non survivor stories, and detailed expert analysis of the damage to the towers, and Pentagon. Oliver Stone is a carrier of the dreaded "conspiracy-itis", which is apparently contagious, since a disproportionate number of actors, who have appeared in Stone films, hav become conspiracy nuts!