Opportunistic, extremely poorly written and directed.

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2008)

I am sure that all the positive comments about this movie reflect the feelings of people who have lost someone in the tragedy. From a human point of view, I can understand those people. But this is a movie, and it should be judged as a movie. It is the most boring and obvious collection of already heard lines that I've ever seen. For two hours the main characters are buried and all they say is "don't die pal" or lines like that. All the most obvious lines that you have heard in movies when some good guy is dying. Nicholas Cage's character lacks any kind of humanity, because he is just a perfect prototype... looks like a black and white American dad from a TV show from the cold war times. Stone and the others should have written something for this movie, instead of recycling empty and boring stereotypes. This movie is just a very bad movie, squalid like those direct to TV movies about plane crashes. Just an opportunistic attempt to speculate on the tragedy.