Why was this film made?

Rating: 2/10 (1 December 2006)

Why was this film made at all? Only five years after the real event why was it necessary to do this? This long, dull story of two trapped police officers is just rubbish. Perhaps Oliver Stone should consider retirement. Did Nicholas Cage really need the money? Initially the film attempts to capture some of the confusion, incorrect assumptions and disbelief of civilians and authorities made as the events unfolded but then settles down into a stultifying dialog between two men trapped in the wreckage with an obligatory happy ending. The events of that day were so dreadful and appalling not only because of the scale of the attack but because of the ignorance, bigotry and hatred of the perpetrators. That hatred and its fundamental cause, the perversion of religion was not even touched on by this story. We now live in a world that is as irrational and intolerant as the middle ages - both in the Christian religiosity of the United States and the fanaticism of Islamic fundamentalists. This film is a waste of time and attempts to explain nothing.