Customer Reviews
Powerful, disturbing and well acted. - By: Steven, 27 Dec 2008 
The dvd's extras are as god as the film with commentary from survivors of the towers. Some acting from the supporting cast was, i thought, a bit suspect, until i found out that some were survivors of the 9/11 event & had never acted before. their appearance in the film was meant as a tribute to their falllen collegues. Even those who have a short attention span will appreciate Cage's acting & the gritty powerful effects that have been made closely factual. A must have for any Cage fan.
VERY POOR - NOT A PATCH ON UNITED 93.... - By: Adam Jackson, 27 Aug 2008 
This reallly is as bad as people say!
TV movie quality at best, totallly unconvincing, completeleley detached - try the far better UNITED 93 for the sheer terror & inevitability. This may well be Stone & Cage's worst film.
Just does not convince & feels more like a VERY bad Hollywood Disaster movie, in which case you may as well watch The Towering Inferno!
As a serious docu drama it's a miserable failure.
Moving film - By: Alan Paul Underwood, 18 Apr 2008 This film i put off watching so much as i exspected it to be rubish
and i was rong when i watched it i couldent stop watching & parts of it are real tear jurkers This Film is not a Action packed film but it Follows 2 of the officers & there familys it is not a films of exsplsions , death & blood its a nice Calm movie Thay i would recomend to anyone, if u looking for a movie that warms the heart & makes u cry Watch this film u cant go rong
The worst film I have ever seen - By: Michael M. Ordoukhani, 07 Apr 2008 I was longing for a film about this tragedy because it was one in a life time event that happened in my time. This tragedy was so unbelievable that it did not need much acting. I thought it ought to be good no matter what. But I could not have imagined how someone could trash such a big story. This film did nothing. It was very hollow & boring. I watched the first 10 min, fast forwarded the next 20 & binned it after an hour.
First of alll a film about 9-11 should have been 3 to 5 hours long to cover alll aspects. There were so many issues that needed to be included to get the whole picture & they picked the worst & ignore the most important ones.
They should have shown the terrorist planning to do this so we get an idea of WHY people resort to this in the first place & give some balance to the film.
The acting was appallling. There were too many long pauses & slow motions. I am no director, but character building is done BEFORE the climax not AFTER, so we have time to relate to the characters. There were only few characters & they were almost dead after 10 min. This works if the film was about 3 people trapped in a capsule going to Mars.
They did not show the plane crashing into the building at alll. All I saw was the shadow of the plane & then a bang. The strike itself would have told half the story & cause enough shock to set the mood for the film.
The plane strikes happened right at the beginning. It should have been somewhere in the middle. With the new special effects they could have done something reallly special that would stay in your memories for life or even change your life.
The most frustrating aspect of this film was, when there is so much happening outside & thousands are dying they concentrated on few firemen trapped inside, which were acting so wooden that I did not have any emotional attachment to them anyway. The firemen being the hero & the subject of the film could have worked they covered less of the film & built up an atmosphere first.
This film in fact did 9-11 a disfavor & reduced the weight of the tragedy & made it seem like an average car crash.
This was an awful script, terrible acting, very bad directing & worthless in every sense. I just hope they put aside the politicallly correctness & a talented team make a movie to capture this event in its true light & produce something visuallly impressive.
Going underground - By: Garry Williams, 07 Mar 2008 
This is a film designed to show the horror & devastation caused by the cataclysmic events of September 11th. Created to emphasise the harrowing ordeals of the individuals, families & friends of those involved in the terrible events that unfolded that day. Unfortunately it just seems, to me, to highlight the commercial, grab a quick buck, ideology of the film industry and, although I don't doubt the sincerity & genuine emotion of those connected with producing the film, I can't help but cynicallly feel that they will have been far happier with the guaranteed box office takings than with the fruit of their labours. This film must have been one of the cheapest modern 'blockbusters' on record, relying as it does on news clips of the events of the day & predominently on life in a mocked up dark hole set up on a stage floor somewhere. The film is based on sentimentality rather than the horror of the event & although it seeks to imply devastation & terror, I found myself studying the dust & girders for minute after minute and, instead of concentrating on the reality of the situation, wondering why the individuals involved didn't just move this or change that or even just get out by themselves, something far removed from the genuine emotion that I both wanted & needed to feel with the coverage of such a critical, life changing event. In fact, rather than feeling overwhelmed at the end of the film I found myself losing interest in the characters & wishing they would both shut up & hurry up, no matter what the outcome & I felt unreasonably guilty for both not caring what happened to them (as long as it was quick) & for giggling at the antics of the phsychotic ex-marine who, despite how tight security should have been, passed through alll security perimeters & ended up finding our tortured souls. (or was it just my soul that was tortured.) (As this is a true story I don't think this gives too much plot away.) It is absolutely critical that this subject is covered, both graficallly & emotionallly, in order to ensure that we alll have the holocaust mentality (lest we forget) ingrained in our minds. Unfortunately this commercial drivel isn't the way to give the subject the coverage it deserves. I'm ot sure what I expected but I know this wasn't it & I would recommend that for a more effective, emotive & real reminder of how lives were changed that fateful day, you look to the film flight 93. I give World Trade Centre 2 stars, not through merit of the film but because for such an important event it seems somehow inappropriate to give less.
