Bit disappointing BUT everyone needs to see this

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2006)

First things first... when 9/11 happened 5+ years back i was probably too young to understand what really happened and how it affected people. I am not American and i live in asia so things are viewed slightly differently. While i have seen the news and heard about happened i could not empathise with what the new yorkers felt till i saw this.
Some parts of this movie are much scarier than what any horror movie can ever be. The feeling of your world coming down around you is just so scary. The scenes with the tower were done tastefully but i still think u needed to combine the scenes with the trapped people with more scenes of the towers disintegrating. No scenes with people in the offices... no scenes with people on the stairs climbing down while rescue workers are going up.PLUS why only focus on the survivors.... one tends to forget about the 2749 other people that died. The audience should be trusted to take the bad with the good. at least maybe show more on the other people that were rescued from the wreckage.
Dialogue was mediocre and the acting was good especially pena... whose emotions did not seem forced although he would have been better served with some good dialogue. Cage was surprisingly wooden and the dialogue did not help. kudos to stephen dorff for a hard hitting but small role towards the end. Maria bello did not have much to do while maggie gyllenhall did good with her role.
Not what i expected from oliver stone at all.... i expected him to let go at the audience and let them feel the devastation and the destruction but in the end it was almost a clichéd Hollywood movie... he took the soft option. Maybe studios felt that the American people were not ready for a movie on this but i think they would have appreciated it. Plus thru a movie, an even bigger audience could have been reached and touched by the braveRy and fortitude shown by the people after such an attack.
I feel there are many other 9/11 stories that need to be told.... and probably told in a more visceral way but i still think that people need to see this movie and understand what happened.