horrible event, horrible movie

Rating: 4/10 (8 December 2007)

***SPOILERS AHEAD***
(World Trade Center is a "LADDER 49" rip-off. The latter wins hands down and is a very good movie; watch it instead.)
There's a decent tension build-up in the beginning with a fair amount of action, only to be followed by an utterly boring second half. It suddenly changes into a family drama; I was actually waiting for Shelley Long to pop up.
If the the time-span between the plane-crashes and the collapses was a bit longer, there would be an opportunity to enlighten the frustrations the NYPD and FD faced during their rescue attempts. Instead nothing happened, making this one very hard to sit out. Perhaps my expectations were too high, maybe the budget was to low. Probably neither: This film was never mend to entertain us....