2017 · drama · thriller
9/11
Directed by Martin Guigui1h 28m2017
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.
Our read: 9/11 (2017) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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