Heroic

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2006)

This movie could have been so many other things, about terror, about construction, about a city. But it was about people who offered up their lives because they loved other human beings. It was a perfect movie for Nicholas Cage, who can be so serious in his dedication. It showed what we have expected about New York public servants, who went in to try and save others no matter what the cost to themselves. the most moving part of the film was just before the collapse, when they met all the firemen going into the towers to their deaths. Equally impressive was the way the rescuers were portrayed. It was great that they didn't show anything the terrorists did, all you got was what New Yorkers saw after the fact.