Yes, the scenes with the car pulling away and the train were great "shots." But I don't go to a movie to see great shots, I go to see human beings.
Also, and I have to be perfectly honest here, as a New Yorker I objected to the referencing of 9/11. The dust and the pictures posted. I'm not going to go crazy about it and start ranting, but I did find it offensive.
I could have done without the 'Wall of the missing' otherwise its almost impossible to make a movie about an urban calamity like that and not have those references pop up. There are visual allusions to the Holocaust as well. Have you read the novel? The movie is quite faithful to its spirit. The novel is Holocaustic.