Closest thing I've ever come to a tear-jerker

Rating: 9/10 (14 September 2006)

I don't cry at movies. Never have, and I doubt I ever will. This movie was no different, but you can bet I was on the verge of getting the sniffles. This film doesn't have an omniscient view of the tragedy we all know too well, but rather focuses on individual views, making it seem much more realistic and as if you're actually there. For example, the trapped officers don't even know the buildings have collapsed because, hello, they're been pinned by rubble for hours on end, terrified. The pain on the screen becomes your pain, both when Nicholas Cage is being crushed by several tons of cement but also when his wife bursts into tears while she waits in a nearby hospital. Every American should see this film.