Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993 TV Movie) User Reviews

Dreary True Life TVM

[Theo Robertson · 3/10 · 16 February 2003]

In Britain we have a show called 999 where real life disasters are reconstructed on screen . I don`t know if there is an equivalent show in the US but watching WITHOUT WARNING made me think I was watching a feature length episode of 999 because this TVM is filmed entirely on video tape so it can be intercut with real life footage of the 1993 world trade centre bombing and feels too much like a reconstruction than a drama. It`s all rather understated and fairly undramatic but I suppose that`s better than the glossy PEARL HARBOR approach of having hunky up and coming stars shouting " Get me a damn firehose " and running into a blazing building in slo-mo . And I guess there is some irony of seeing a then pre ER George Clooney spending much of this TVM in a hospital bed as an injured fireman . But it`s impossible nowadays to write the initials WTC or hear the words " World trade centre " without thinking of the date 9/11

Mediocre

[henryonhillside · 5/10 · 26 February 2016]

The bombing didn't last long enough to make a good movie out of it. I realize that sounds a bit crass. I beg the forgiveness of people whose lives were scarred by this terrible event. My point is, if you're making a disaster movie, you want the disaster to last for a while. That, frankly, is what makes the movie worth watching. The sinking of the Titanic is absolutely perfect for the movies - 2 hours and 40 minutes from the moment the ship hit the iceberg to when it vanished beneath the waves. Ideal! You can be assured that James Cameron pondered the timing as he thought about doing the movie. "The Towering Inferno" - that skyscraper took forever to burn. This film - a lot of preface, a lot of emergency responders, very little oomph. I do like the outdoor shots with shards of snow falling down.

Interesting

[guitargod5 · 6 November 2002]

I saw this movie for the first time at 3 in the morning as i was flipping through channels one summer night but I fell asleep before it was over. Eventually I was at a friends house and he had told me he was an extra in this movie so we watched it and it was a pretty good movie and it was even more interesting how several of todays stars are in that movie especially since it was one made for tv. Good job, despite today's post 9/11 situation.

A good movie

[JamisonC97 · 7/10 · 22 September 2001]

This was a good movie but I realize with what happened on Sept. 11,2001 it may be hard to watch. I thought the cast did an excellent job. George Clooney was good and John Karlen too. The whole cast was good. I know this is about the bombing and I know for some it will be very difficult to watch. It may be difficult for me to watch again for a while too.

An Answer To Theo From The United Kingdom

[cbratland20002001 · 10/10 · 7 August 2006]

You wondered if we had a show in the U.S. like 999, yes we do it is on channel 69 The National Geographic Channel it is called Seconds From Disaster,the show takes viewers back in time to before the disaster happened and it tells at what time what went on,until the disaster finally happened. Like when DC 10 Delta Airlines Flight 232 when they reconstructed what happened, and they put together the whole plane they noticed that the fan disc was missing from engine number 2 which controlled the fuel lodges to the airplane.When it detached from the plane it made the passengers feel and hear a BAAAAAAAAAAANNNNG sound and then the crew had to have an emergency landing after they had radioed Minneappolsis- St.Paul Airport, they told them to land at the nearby Sioux Gate Airport in the sleepy little town of Sioux City,Iowa.There they would never expect to crash land and lose one crew member and 111 passengers,some of them as young as 1 1/2 old.GE The manufacturer of the fan disc offered a big reward if the defective fan disc was found.An Iowa farm wife found the fan disc split in two in her field when she was plowing the earth she hit something and when she went to see what it was she put it and the other part she had found while plowing in another part of her field and a circle was what she found and the national newspapers got wind and she was rewarded with the reward money from GE.When they got it together with the rest of the plane they figured out what happened and why Flight 232 crashed.The fan disc had a small fracture in it smaller than a human finger nail.It was a manufacturing error that ended up in disaster.

Recall a time when the enemy DIDN'T succeed.

[Ddey65 · 16 April 2004]

One of the unfortunate results about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, is that they've overshadowed the February 26, 1993 attack on the World Trade Center -- so much so that people refuse to acknowledge that the attack had the same goal as 9/11, and didn't happen when George W. Bush or George H.W. Bush were President of the United States. Those who are dumb enough to blame George W. Bush on 9/11 must watch this movie. The same goes for those who consider Israel responsible, as well as those who complain about "profiteering" from the war we're in now, who forgot about the man who's illuminated Timex lit the way to safety in '93, and had his story turned into a TV Commercial. The reason they must watch it is so they know that the goals that Osama Bin Laden had for New York City was tried eight years earlier, and that on both occasions the Islamic fanatics responsible for the attacks left obvious clues leading to the source of hatred of America, and in the case of the 1993 attack their conviction. The 1993 WTC Bombers planned to cause one tower to collapse upon the other. The only difference between the two attacks is that the 1993 bombers failed to achieve their intended goal, because the North Tower withstood the bombing long enough to allow construction workers to rebuild the foundation. The biggest criticism I have with this movie is that it was made too soon after the attack, but I'll take this movie over the yet-to-be released, "Fahrenheit 9/11,", because this is a dramatic interpretation of the truth, not a biased distortion of a slanted zealot who passes himself off as an intellectual and a documentarian claiming to be searching for the truth, when he's already decided what it is. Are you reading this, Michael Moore? It's Islamic fanaticism that's to blame for both attacks, not Bush, not Clinton, and not Islam.

Never forget September 11, 2001. But also, never forget February 26, 1993 either!

Winds of Change from Chernobyle to the Twin Towers

[Global_Marketing_Pros · 8/10 · 7 September 2006]

I feel like this movie is inspired by those who love to make others pay by their will of justice. While listening to the group Londonbeat, Build It with Love, I feel that true terrorists love to build bridges by making fences as well. Londonbeat featured their single, Build It with Love, in the soundtrack "Virtuosity" under the label radioactive records. I think back about the Chernobyle nuclear accident and how the wind direction was coincidently blowing into Russia instead of South into the city of Kiev, of the Ukraine. The "winds of change" were also blowing as they carried the U.S. passenger jets into these Twin Trade Towers on 9/11/01.

This movie is O.K. as far as a movie but as far as a true documentary it stinks.

I would really like to see a movie about counter-espionage and the Israeli intelligence agency the Mossad. I saw the "Sword of Gideion" which was interesting but I would like to see one that is similar to how the character Columbo would investigate a crime. Israeli involvement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the value of the Merkava battle tank to Lebanon Hizbulla para-military radicals. Maybe the title could be "Friends of Governor Arnold Swarzennager".