This film is a tragedy!

Rating: 1/10 (8 October 2006)

There were hoots of laughter in the auditorium during this film. This movie simply fails to connect the watcher to the terrible events of September 11th. This film is slow, dull, and ultimately a bit vomit-inducing.
The movie tries hard to 'humanise' the heroes of the day, so that we can really feel for them as the events unfold. We spend too much time learning about their lives, wives, children, family, pets etc. And for nothing: the cardboard acting ensures we develop no empathy with the fallen heroes.
The result is two-and-a-bit hours of mind-numbing boredom, with a few hysterical moments of panic that were never meant to be funny. This should have been as emotionally stirring as Schindler's List: I should have left the auditorium weeping into my popcorn. Instead, I couldn't care less whether the heroes lived or died -- I just wanted this awful movie to end.