Unnecessary

Rating: 4/10 (14 August 2006)

I saw this movie with a free pass, and I'm glad I didn't pay to go watch it. The entire movie is filled with overwrought emotional scenes and, while I realize that September 11, 2001 was, of course, an extremely emotional time, especially at the time - the continual over-emoting of the American media starts to grate after awhile.
The police and firefighters who were there, did their jobs and were very brave in the face of having a tragedy no one understood. However, simply being there did not elevate them all to heroes or saints in my book - it proved them to be good men and women who did their jobs, did them well and faced great danger. But while it was a tragedy, and I may be an insensitive jerk for bringing this up - it needs to be let go just a little. Let the people who were there, and who lost loved ones move on. It was not the single worst moment in history. I found this movie about ten years premature.