A little bit disappointed with this movie

Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2007)

9/11. We all know the horrible tragedy that showed up on our TV screens. We all felt, even if we didn't lose anybody, like a part of ourselves had been ripped out. The traumatic effects of 9/11 left us all emotionally scarred, but we move on. And sometimes we remember. Our favorite way of remembering something is through a movie. So here we have World Trade Center: giving us the story of 2 men who get caught in the rubble of the Twin Towers, fighting with every breath for their own lives.
Unfortunately, the movie is not as good as I have already made it sound. It's not because we got Nicholas Cage in the film, as everybody complains. As a matter of fact, I think he did OK with such a delicate part. And the other guy buried in the rubble with him was phenomenal. It's the writing and timing that completely wrecked the film.
The movie opens with these 2 guys regular lives, and fifteen minutes, the Twin Towers have been hit. A little too soon; we needed to know our characters a little better. Anyway, the guys walk in to the building LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. I repeat, the men walked around LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. There in a building full of panicked, bleeding people, and they actually make a couple of jokes AS THEY WALK through the building. I was so stunned by the fact that these men did not run through the building trying to help. This goes on for a frustrating ten minutes. The towers collapse.
At this point, I would like to let you know that I thought my father died. My father did not work in WTC, but he still worked in Manhattan, and he still hadn't called us, and we couldn't get through. I felt a burning sensation in my heart, and I remember crying my eyeballs dry, thinking my father was dead. That was so emotional for me.
So like I said, the towers collapsed. The two men spend about an hour and a half of film time under the rubble. We also have clips of their families panicking. One of the families, I can't remember which, was frustrating beyond words. I was really hoping that that idiot kid would drive to Manhattan and die in the rubble, because all he did was scream at his mother. There is also an over-the-top military man who finally saves these two men. We see them in the hospital, and what you see is a bit intense. Then the movie ends about 3 minutes later.
The only part that kept my jaw dropped was everything that happened before the men entered the WTC. After that, the emotional effects of 9/11 that I had felt that day rubbed off. The movie ended, with the only positive thing coming out after that point was the phenomenal actor.
Part of remembering traumatic events like this is to put the pain back in people, the fear, and the loss. Although it is a horrible thing to think about, we do it. Obviously the writer did not think of how he felt after 17 minutes. 5.6/10