Oliver Stone gets a get out of jail free card...

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2006)

with this film. This film could've been the most horrible film ever. But no one would've said a word, because it would make you look like a bad American.
I'm going to keep this review short and sweet. I went into the film expecting something average, and even then, I was disappointed. I watched this film, as a film. Almost as if it were fiction. I wasn't going to let bias get in the way of a review of a film. I'm glad I did.
The beginning was very boring, did not grab me or any of my co-viewers attentions at all. The officers running around a hallway for a 10 minute stint was not engaging at all. Then, the crash. Interest peaking. But it doesn't show anything other than the hallway crashing, and trapping our officers in the rubble.
This is where the film has no plot whatsoever. We sit, and watch them talk about how much they hurt, and how much they love their families, as we cut between them and the those TWO families, and how worried they all are.
I understand Mr. Stone, families were in turmoil during this time. Can you bring any more substance to incident? Instead, he uses American bias as a cover for climax. It's self-indulgent. The only people who will 'love' this film, are people in USA trucker-hats, whom have never left outside of America's shores, as they whoop and holler over lines like, "You Are Our Mission!" It's just a really bad film. I'm asking you, Americans, not to let Oliver Stone get money from our hearts. This is a poorly-directed and written film. If we keep rewarding bad-film-making like this, that cash in on our heart-strings, we will never get meaningful films again! We keep getting flops like this, because we keep paying for it.
Don't feel like a bad American for not seeing this film. This is a bad film, and you should really wait till video if you want to see it.