WTC - Wasted time and Cash

Rating: 1/10 (1 August 2007)

The horrifying destiny of thousands of ordinary people and hundreds of servicemen and rescue workers on 911 is certainly worth making a disaster movie, but this film is dull and boring in its essence. First of all, for 60 minutes we watch two guys being trapped under the rubble of WTC tower fighting to stay alive. Not much of a plot. We hear people talking in abbreviations, we see flashbacks from their everyday lives, we see their families shattered by uncertainty and suspense, we hear them rant about cheesy stuff that would make any other movie, not this delicate, pathetic and a complete washout. What we don't see is an insight on these dramatic events themselves. I can't criticize this film from an artistic point of view, but rather from a political one. As we hear a number of explosions inside the WTC, the tagline should read: The world saw evil that day. Millions of people saw an inside job.
There's this dull character, Marines staff sergeant Karnes, a big bully-like hunk, with the IQ of a mongoose and a mindset of a thoughtless pawn, who is determined on finding the survivors and pulling them out. He even takes a haircut for this occasion. As he sets an example of what good, heroic and obeying citizen should look like. In the end he says US will need lot of good men to avenge this. The end credits show that he served two tours of duty in Iraq, which means "let's avenge this on the first country that comes along". Or the one Mr. Bushy points at. When we hear media anchors in the movie rant about the attacks from all over, one can't help but to compare these descriptions to what US is doing to other countries on a regular basis. They also have no respect for human lives, they also bomb civilians, they also use terror as the mean to an end, and then they stage a false-flag attack so they could bomb even more countries under the excuse of war on terror. Here we have a subtle message that US should avenge their dead, but when the others do that, it's called terrorism. Why hundreds of thousands of people had to die in Iraq? Just because Uncle Sam yearned to avenge the events so suspicious that even their own brainwashed fellow citizens find them hard to believe? Why did they bomb Serbia, which also fought Muslim terrorists within its own borders, under the excuse of humanitarian disaster, when alleged 100.000 refugees in Kosovo were nothing compared to the millions right now in Iraq? Not to mention the body count. Double standards for the privileged world power we all should feel sorry for. Poor little Americans. Yet, the Hollywood machinery also makes a profit.
Please come and shower us with some more of that depleted uranium before you make another movie like this one.