It seems to me to be a film with a message. And that message is clearly very pro-Bush. As I watched the film I sat there shaking my head from time to time - especially during the scenes where prez. Bush gives his noble speeches to his cabinet. I mean come on! He is being portrayed as the greatest gift to crisis management and warfare there ever was. And he most definitely is not. But still, if you look beyond the fact that this is a propaganda film it is also a reasonable retelling of the events of 9/11 and as such is a completely unnecessary film at this point in time - who needs reminding of the events on that day?
The film has been written by Lionel Chetwynd - a man who has a tendency to write "american hero" stories, who seem to be nationalistic to the extreme and who recently wrote the screenplay for IKE: Countdown to D-Day, another movie with the same kind of theme - great Americans. In that movie, according to a New York Times review, Ike actually has to give Winston Churchill a talking to since Churchill apparently is not ready to invade on D-Day. Churchill was the most eager man in Europe to get the invasion going! This goes to show the failures of Lionel Chetwynd as a historical writer.
I rated this movie a 3, given that it is not a bad movie as such. It's just reeking with politics. The wrong kind of politics.
The film has been written by Lionel Chetwynd - a man who has a tendency to write "american hero" stories, who seem to be nationalistic to the extreme and who recently wrote the screenplay for IKE: Countdown to D-Day, another movie with the same kind of theme - great Americans. In that movie, according to a New York Times review, Ike actually has to give Winston Churchill a talking to since Churchill apparently is not ready to invade on D-Day. Churchill was the most eager man in Europe to get the invasion going! This goes to show the failures of Lionel Chetwynd as a historical writer.
I rated this movie a 3, given that it is not a bad movie as such. It's just reeking with politics. The wrong kind of politics.