Filming was just about to get underway, and although many directors would have put the project on hold, Lee decided to continue absorbing the horror of events into 25th Hour.

Commenting on September 11th, Lee said :

As a New Yorker, I felt it would be criminal to make this film as if nothing had happened

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By including the city's sense of loss within the film, Arena magazine says it's one of the better films of the year and 'possibly Lee's finest work to date.'

The story is about a big time drug dealer whose 'business' has gone bust as all around the city of New York mourns.

As the central character Monty Brogan (played by Ed Norton) contemplates a seven year jail stretch, it soon becomes apparent that fate has plans for him.

Natasha put it to Spike that though the central character was in fact a "baddie" there is enormous sympathy for him :

Even though you know he is a heroin dealer, coke too, you see him as a human being