Two Men Saw Something Else

Rating: 4/10 (15 October 2008)

Yes they saw a lot of concrete. This comment is small and for people who have seen the movie. It is small because I will talk about the political contents of this movie.
Oliver Stone, who showed some courage with JFK, now shows us a completely politically neutral film about two men hoping to survive that fatal day.
Wrong. There is some statement in this. Towards the end, The catholic soldier dressed up in a military suit says something like "Someone will have to fight back".
Now, maybe on the one hand, Stone wants us to believe that the attack came from the outside and very soon U.S. Soldiers will pay the attackers a visit or on the other hand, someone is somehow (with whatever methods, guns, words,...) fighting back to the attacker, no matter who that one is (Arabs, the U.S. Government itself etc.) I wonder why Stone made a completely (politically) useless movie, just to shout out (discreetly) that last line in the end. Why wait 2 hours for doing so? Sure thing is, you have not really missed anything.
P.S. Besides that, the movie is... well enjoyable, but if this movie wasn't about the 9/11 WTC events as script background, it'd be a complete waste of time. With all due respect to the brave and respectable rescue teams and victims of that day: the movie is quite boring, because somehow you just know that they're going to survive, absolutely pointless.
I know its not correct to point that out because the movie is about the bravery of 9/11 civilians, but someone just had to do so. Sorry.
I would have preferred that the movie had put more emphasis on the voluntary helpers and how the state dropped them and their consequential health problems off. We should now know that 911 rescuers have many breathing illnesses but because they were not contractually employed by the government, they receive no health care whatsoever. They literally risked their lives to help. they got NOTHING back. That is absolutely cruel and disgusting.
The movie did not even question such cruelty. This movie does NOTHING, as if it was directed by the government. Sick...