Why this sentimentality?

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2006)

Oliver Stone's got resources and he has fulfilled all promises in making a movie which will bring in money to the production company. And this is well done due to the premises. Many, many extras and an impressing build-up of the catastrophe area.
But what annoys viewers from outside the US anyway, is this eternal handkerchief damaging scenes with the families, always described as the total angels. That's "Hollywood tradition" at its worst.
This movie would have been stronger if it hadn't concentrated on the fate of these two heroic policemen. Instead there should have been many episodes, including more people. This becomes more of a common action movie than an honest interpretation of what really happened 11th September. Stone can do much better.