World Trade Center

Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad. His film offers both a harrowing return to a singular, disastrous episode in the recent past and a refuge from the ugly, depressing realities of its aftermath.

It's as harrowing as moviegoing gets.

A physically impressive, well-acted, sometimes emotionally powerful - and mostly apolitical - re-creation of that awful day that has some conservative pundits praising Stone as some sort of born-again patriot.

Stone has concentrated on one of the catastrophe's stories and has fashioned it well--with almost palpable physical detail, and with performances that never sink to exploitation.

Despite the best efforts of the cast (Cage is especially evocative in a literally confined role), Stone can't disguise the fact that his movie, like his heroes, has come to a kinetic halt, stuck between a narrative rock and an emotional hard place.

World Trade Center is fatally benign -- an unexceptionable and therefore unexceptional heroic narrative that does little to further the tentative creep of our pop culture toward parsing the significance of that catastrophic day.

Almost unforgivably sentimental.

This is a very long 'trapped' scenario movie, and only very lightly touches on the actual events of the day. This is actually about Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin rather than the World Trade Center per se. It's a very sweet and inspiring movie, though. It doesn't overdo it with the propaganda, and you know that's why they made this.. right in the hottest point of anti-war sentiment. I was coming in expecting a cheesey, dreadful, summer blockbuster type tasteless act. But there's not much special effects here, it's produced well, and doesn't do anything cheese or taboo. I was very surprised by this, and especially Nicholas Cage's performance. He really brought the A-game nobody knew he had.

The film itself is unremarkable, with the most compelling aspect being the real story behind it. Unfortunately, such a story is inevitably constrained in adaptation, leaving most of the content between the beginning and the end unable to fully showcase the talents of Oliver Stone, Nicolas Cage, and the rest of the excellent cast.

"World Trade Center" was a very good film, especially the beginning was very good, what followed was slow, and turned off the excitement a bit, but we liked the plot, and the atmosphere of the worst attack in history, the fall Of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

There's a certain unique emotion surrounding this film--perhaps, because it is the first major film to depict that tragic day. Nicolas Cage along with director, Oliver Stone, give a very respectable take on two survivors and their future.

The beginning is not bad and the setting is surely interesting. But the part with McLoughlin andJimeno in the gravel was boring, the dialogue cliche. I expected the movie to be more political, although the movie hints some aspects. Instead of that it focused on 2 individual stories with their some families.I dont care about that, the theme World trade center and the political background would be more interesting for me