A Poor Outing

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2006)

I recently was in the United States and thus decided to take some time out to watch the World Trade Center movie, before making my way back to the United Kingdom.
I was looking forward to seeing this movie for a number of reasons. One due to the fact that I am a budding historian, and enjoy films based around true events, that have shaped our lives. 9/11 has definitely had an impact on the way we live and work today. At the same time, one can in some ways not enjoy this film as you would any other, due to the nature of the events that the movie is based on.
After seeing United 93, which I thought was a very thought out movie, I had high expectations. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. I felt that the start of the film was incredibly rushed, and did not really focus enough on what actually happened on that day. The story seemed to really start from the towers collapsing. It would have been more interesting to see more of the time before the towers actually collapsed. This is really the major thing that let this movie down for me, other than that the movie was alright. Nothing special, but alright.
However, the impact on this part missing for me was so big that I could not get back into the movie, and did not enjoy watching it.