One senses the conspiracy maniac champing at the bit in the stray shot across the
bow at how we're going
to avenge this blow against our country (by taking
down a Middle Eastern nation because its despot once tried
to kill our current leader's daddy, apparently), or in recycled footage of Bush Jr. jetting across the country, pausing long enough at the stray landing strip
to deliver robot platitudes and promises of vengeance — yet Stone
resists politicizing the events of 9/11 by presenting what can most delicately be described as an entirely unexceptional film about completely familiar events.