This is what happened ...

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2007)

... and it's shown quite literally here on this film. So you get more a documentary kind of vibe of it. Although it's shot as a movie as opposed to "United 93" that had the documentary vibe all over it, you get a retelling of what happened on that day (9/11), at the site of the twin towers!
This is then the story of firemen and their families. Who both are helpless (in more than one way) to the horrific thing that happened that day! It's nice that as with "United 93", Oliver Stone asked the families for permission, too. He got many details from those conversations and that shows on screen! This movie is character driven, but not in the sense that the main leading characters are actively involved in a journey, which is something a viewer might want to see (there's a character who takes that active role, but it merely seems enough) ... Still gripping from start to finish, especially if you don't know what happened exactly ...