Very good!

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2006)

I saw this at a screening held at USC for the students 3 weeks before its release date. After the film the producer, Stacey Sher, who is a USC alumni, answered questions about the movie. She said many things about the film which made it make more sense. Firstly, its a movie about September 12th more than what happened on Sept. 11th. The story at no time mentions what happened that day except from the perspective of the two characters, John and Will. No recreation of the events were shown (except of course the events that happened to the two characters, and anything seen of the attacks were news footage taken that day). It is purely the story of the two characters. The marine character who found the two trapped men really was like that (at the time of the screening he had served 2 tours of duty and hadn't yet seen the film). I think though that the most interesting part of the film is that the actual PAPD who helped rescue the real men were playing parts in the movie (Will and John are actually the two men at the end with Nic and Michael). A lot of people commented that they were pleasantly surprised by the film. I really liked the film just from the fact that it is a universal rescue story set amongst the Sept 11th event and that it is a story about true human emotions and kindness, regardless of what happened that day. I'd actually give it 7.5 but can't give half marks in the vote.