Should have been a great movie instead of a merely good one

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2010)

I realize that certain people, especially in national tragedies, need special attention, but I wanted to see a lot more events that took place on 9/11, than just what these two officers and their families went through? Why not a story where kids, very young kids, are separated from their parents, and are now orphans, or a story where some people are now jobless, because their workplaces were in or near the Twin Towers? Or how people across the country are affected by it? But no, instead of learning about what results from the tragedies, we have to sit through 2 hours of watching Officer John McCoughlin and William Jimeno trapped under rubble, and see their families worry. I still enjoyed the movie, but I didn't learn as much as I thought I should have.
*** out of ****