Just not powerful enough

Rating: 5/10 (26 June 2007)

I will admit this film does trigger some sadness, however not on the scale i would have thought.
For ages i put off watching this film purely because i knew Hollywood would gain money by turning America's catastrophe into something of a profit. I may be wrong and possibly the director/writer's just wanted to commend all the firefighters and police etc... however it just was not emotive enough. I was expecting myself to be tearing up and not being able to hold back the tears and i really wasn't. It became clear that they also wanted to show something about humanity and how when bad times come people always come together - yes this is right however it really wasn't shown much in the film, at the end yes but not consistent the way through.
I will commend the actors; I thought they did it as realistically as they possibly could, which was the only spark to this film along with the music, even though a bit repetitive.
I'm next going to watch Flight 93 (i think it's called that) and see if this truly pays credit to 9/11. So far the only film i have seen that was truly brilliant was a BBC two part film - which really made me think.