Just Watch Ladder 49

Rating: 4/10 (9 August 2006)

This movie was, as I had predicted prior to seeing it, startingly similar to Ladder 49. They took the general idea for the movie, but changed it to take place inside the collapsed WTC. I know it's based on true events, and this, paired with some of the shots of the buildings collapsing and the people around when it happens, do add emotional value to the movie. All in all though, it reminded me way too much of Ladder 49. The dialogue itself was sub-par on most cases; incredibly predictable and cheesy. Maybe I'm a heartless shaft for saying this, but they seemed to rely almost entirely on people's memory of the event to provide any kind of emotional value.
I'm probably just a jerk, but this movie bored me, and I really expected a movie based on this event to have more value than this did. It's bad enough that they're capitalizing on people's grief and fear, but now they're doing it with a lame movie that everyone will thumbs-up just because of the event it's based on.