Still can't believe, after all these years, that it's Oliver Stone who directed this.

It's not just because the movie is quite bad, most people agree on that. Plus, Stone directed many other junks so.

No, it's about the fact that Oliver Stone used to be a director who denonced American society and politics. Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers and others were movies with a judgment, like eyes-openers. They were meant to make us think about the problems with the vietnam war, the official version of the assassination of Kennedy or the form of worshipping of serial killers by the american media. I won't go deep, because there are boards for these movies. But you get the point.

Now, I'll say it right away: I'm not a conspiracy nutter. I don't think 9/11 is an all-made American event. That being said, I still have some problems with the official version and I think would had been the perfect filmmaker to explore the case.

Instead, we have a boring patriotic fest in which we are brought to feel sorry for TWO firefighters who were trapped in the debris of the two towers. In a such a tragic day in which so many lives were lost, I kinda have a hard time to be sorry for these two individuals. I praise their bravery, I don't mean to deny the fact that they were heroes. Still, other heroes perished that day.

The whole movie turns pretty much around them being trapped their and talking about their lives and families, cut by scenes of their families that have a hard time. It's basically a 2 hours+ long snooze-fest of people crying, talking, suffering and grieving without anything really happening. [b] SPOILERS: They go to work, learn that a plane crashed into one of the towers, go there to help people leave the buildings, the towers collapses on them and they get trapped. Then the movie stalls on them speaking and their two families being hopeless. Finally they are saved by others forces who were digging and BAM, the end. Cool, but when I watch a movie I want certain substance, a certain story to it. This is like a memoir.

It's a missed opportunity because, at least, they could had had explored the reaction that the americans had to it, the investigations, the crisis it created or how it lead to the war. We get none of that, and coming from the filmmaker who had made JFK, one of the most detailed investigation movie of all times, this is kind of a letdown.