The logo 9/11 will go down in history as a day of infamy similar to December 7. As a movie, “9/11” is a disaster with hardly any redeeming features.
Five people are trapped in an elevator of the first of the New York Twin Towers to be targeted by terrorists. They while waiting for help to take them to safety, they recount critical events of their lives.
Characters in the quintet are carefully selected by the playwright. First is the highly successful billionaire played by Charlie Sheen. Alongside him is his wife who announces she is filing for divorce: His business is smothering their relationship. Next is a black NYC messenger boy. To spread the ethnicity around like peanut butter on bread, Luis Guzman (as Latino as you can get) is an elevator technician and a Russian women who rents by the hour to KGB delegation at the U.N. is tossed in for good measure.
Whoopi Goldberg plays the elevator monitor who is in communications with the trapped five. Her acting is great, but they could have done something with her hair. I couldn’t shake its comic trademark.
Guzman carries the flick. Sheen does better than I expected. But what I don’t need is another stock plot and downer ending. Grade D. Skip this film currently playing at The Rialto Theater in The Villages.
Villager Jack Petro reviews movies for Villages-News.com
