Two good cops, one bad situation

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2007)

This is the second film released in 2006 about the attack on America on September 11th, 2001. The film is based on the true personal story of two real life cops, who got trapped beneath the ruins the day World Trade Center was destroyed, and what a story! It is a story about the will to survive and about helping each other in difficult times. It could very easily have become a story which was all too "Hollywood", but the maestro Oliver Stone has made a film which catches you emotionally from the first moment. It opens with a beautiful picturing of how New York woke up on an ordinary day, which turned into a nightmare.
The film as a story is emotionally strong, but the film as a film doesn't turn out as well as UNITED 93. WORLD TRADE CENTER is more a "search and find" film just using 9/11 as starting point; after 30 minutes focus moves completely from the attack itself to the after-effects. But it doesn't make the film boring or bad; thinking of 9/11 and the true tragic incident of the two cops just makes the experience even stronger.