W.T.C. (True Story): An Excellent Tear Jerker

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2006)

It was a great movie centered on the real life events of two Port Authority officers trapped underneath the collapsed World Trade Centers in an elevator shaft. The families of the two officers are shown as they were upon hearing about the event and the painful wait they had to suffer through to hear any news of their loved ones.
The movie contains a lot of graphic scenes including people jumping, dying, and blood. Not recommended for children, but a must see for adults.
To imagine what it was like for the people there, the noise and the pain... it's all very overwhelming. The two men that were trapped had no idea what was going on around them, or the fact that they were actually trapped under the building and not some random debris. It was interesting to see it from their perspective, they were on the inside without any idea of what was going on.
I had my doubts about the movie before it was out because i felt it was too soon for a theatrical re-telling. I went to see it anyway because my mom's cousin was one of the Port Authority officers that died that day. I'm glad i did.
What I ask people to do as they see this movie is not to look at it as another action packed flick or a film made purely for entertainment's sake, but as the true event that it was. This DID happen to these two men, and maybe more. To say "the dialog was dull" or "the story could have been better" or "why couldn't they put more action in it" would be a criticism. You can't tweak real life so it sells better. The point is that this happened. I'm happy with the way they made it because there was no extra tweaking just to make it a good movie. They told it like it was - how they experienced it.