Better without the ending

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2006)

I saw WTC today and was incredibly moved by it, remarkable since from a moviemaker's perspective, very little happened. Two men were trapped in a dark hole and their wives awaited their fate. But the power of the performances by Cage and Pena and their screen wives carried the movie home. The real life courage of the rescuers provided the power behind that.
The only element I did not like was the unnecessary coda at the end in which the Cage character suddenly is a voice-over narrator, mouthing platitudes. The movie is its own message, it needed no moral to the story ending.