8:46

A Well-Intentioned 9/11 Short That Juggles A Lot Of Characters Affected By Tragedy
With the best of intentions, it's almost impossible to be critical of Jennifer Gargano's short feature "8:46." Documenting a diverse cross section of characters on the day before, as well as the morning of, the tragic events of 9/11/2001, the film seeks to be a tribute to everyone affected by that fateful day. It's a lofty goal for such a small picture! Lacking any real budget and running shy of an hour, the film boasts an impressively large cast. We meet dozens and dozens of characters (some we revisit, some we don't) for one to three minute intervals of everyday life on September Tenth. Then everyone is reunited for the tragedy at 8:46 the next morning. Police, Firefighters, workers in the first tower, workers in the second tower, people on the planes, relatives with family members in peril, people in neighboring areas--just about everyone gets a bit of screen time. It's an interesting approach, but also somewhat distancing. Gargano attempts to juggle a lot in fifty...

A DIFFERENT WAY OF SEEING 9-11
At first I thought that this was going to be one of the eyewitness accounts of that day, but instead it was a movie. I really liked the way it was done.
I think that it just shows how it affected so many innocent people just going about their daily lives and then normal was over.
It just shows how something or someone can be taken from you in the blink of an eye and when you least expect it.

Completely and totally missed the mark
I know it isn't okay to give a movie about 9/11 a one star rating but this movie is so bad I had to. I get what the writer/ director was going for, she obviosly wanted to portray victims of the attacks in their final moments, illuminating the horror and tragedy of that morning. However, this movie reads like a cheesy, true a amateur attempt to play of the shared experience of anyone who remembers that day. The acting is bad, the writing is worse, and the passing is painfully slow. I honestly don't understand how this movie received the acclaim it did, except that it isn't okay to give bad reviews to movies about 9/11. I'll be brave enough to say it: this movie is awful, just awful.

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