9/11
Five random strangers find themselves trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower on 9/11. They work together, never giving up hope, to try to escape before the unthinkable happens.
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- Cast:
- Charlie Sheen , Whoopi Goldberg , Luis Guzmán , Gina Gershon , Wood Harris , Bruce Davison , Dahlia Waingort
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That was an excellent one.
Such a frustrating disappointment
Great Film overall
The acting in this movie is really good.
I tried. I'd never heard of this movie before it aired on my local TV and my first thoughts were: -Oh, another 9/11 movie (not that there has been that many so far) -Starring Charlie Sheen? Ok why not, he used to be known for being a fine actor after all -Starring Whoopie Goldberg, mmhh ok -Starring Gina Gershon? Now that's interesting -Oh and there's this actor you see everywhere since always! Luis Guzman! -Wait, what? People trapped in an elevator after the attack? That rings a bell but you say this is a fiction? WTH? So I thought, ok, maybe a straight to video movie, let's give it a try anyway. Well, I tried to watch it without any prejudice, I didn't go to Rottentomatoes (I never do), I didn't watch the users' reviews. And the result is so poor IMHO that I can't believe they even bothered to release it on big screens. The clichés are so expectable you can only laugh. The couple soon to be divorced making up in the end? Check. The crying mom saying I love you to her son? Check. The hero trapped at the last minutes just when you think that everybody will escape? Check. Etc. This is badly written, badly directed, and worse of all, badly acted, and it makes me cringe to write this about all these people involved. No chemistry, anywhere. It just didn't work. It should have, it could have, it didn't.
Super! Perfect cast , actual story! I Even being brazilian i was sleeping in that day at that time, day off, living in Manhattan, at 50th st and 9th ave, 9/11. I woke up, turned on my computer and make my Verizon DSL Connection through America Online provider and right in the front of me , i snapshot of two towers firing in. I thought that was a new hollywood movie, but that was real,so i ran to the window to see waht was going on. I changed my clothes and got down to seee if i could do something to help. O was in shock like everyone anyway. Was really bad to see Manhattan in that way, looking like a ghost city, people coming from south, Downtow, to the north , Uptown. Was really saddy. The greast city that i felt in love. Happy to see you UP again NYC. Miss you!
Since the opening scene you get a taste of the absolute mediocrity that follows for the rest of the film. There's so much wrong with it that I really don't even know where to start, but the first apparent serious problem seems to be the casting choice, and that's what probably made this movie fail in such disastrous proportions. This film needs to be shown in acting school as an example for how NOT to act, and I'm honestly very surprised that Whoopi Goldberg got herself involved in such an amateurish project, as there's a big difference between supporting a cause and agreeing to be part of a mediocre production. All the performances were terrible, but Sheen's acting in particular is so laughably bad that by the end of the movie I felt truly embarrassed for him. The script is extremely weak and lame - the dialogue between some of the characters is stupid and totally unnecessary in moments of tension that are supposed to be serious. The so called "comic relief" fails miserably and it clearly makes the scenes cringy and awkward for the actors themselves. The characters are so unlikable and annoying that at some point you actually stop caring about them, and when you have such a limited acting cast and this situation occurs you know the movie is in serious trouble. Generic camerawork and choppy editing makes the technical aspect of the production seem boring and unattractive. The overall tone of the movie is very confusing, as sometimes it feels like a low-budget horror film and other times it has the comedic vibe of a parody. All in all this has to be one of the absolute worst films of 2017.
I must agree with another reviewer. I don't understand the bad reviews-this was a great portrayal of "unsung" victims. We know of the ones on the plane and the rescue teams, but we rarely hear of the ones that were in the Twin Towers. We can't rewrite what happened: we know how it ends. But this movie is not low-budget by far. It's a good way to see all perspectives. Kuddos!