World Trade Center (2006)
70 %
Reviews Counted: 216 Fresh: 151 Rotten:65 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
As a visually stunning tribute to lives lost in tragedy, World Trade Center succeeds unequivocally, and it is more politically muted than many of Stone's other works.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins 58 secs
Theatrical Release: Aug 9, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $70,236,496
Synopsis: The events of September 11 left an indelible mark on most Americans, and certainly on those in the New York City area. Yet as fresh as the images seem, it's easy to forget the actual grit, sacrifice, and uncertainty of that day. Director Oliver Stone captures the essence of 9/11 by focusing on the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Andrea Berloff
Producer: Michael Shamberg, Debra Hill, Stacey Sher, Moritz Borman
Composer: Craig Armstrong
Screenwriter: Andrea Berloff
Producer: Michael Shamberg, Debra Hill, Stacey Sher, Moritz Borman
Composer: Craig Armstrong
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Reviews
World Trade Center is not a great film. It barely passes as a good one. For a film that should have hollowed out its audience, I walked out strangely unmoved.
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02/28/08
For all its noble intent the film brings to celluloid life makes just about every fear anyone had about a Hollywood treatment of the 9/11 tragedy.
08/25/07
No particular reason to exist other than to garland itself with medals for telling an Uplifting True Story About Good Men.
07/23/07
I began to feel as if Stone were singling out the 'decent' people of America and making this story theirs alone.
01/19/07
What did Oliver Stone make me think about? In a nutshell, he made me remember that this country was built on the hearts and resolve of it's citizens.
12/13/06
It's plainly evident that all of the filmmakers approached the subject matter with appropriate honor and respect. (In other words, this movie is no Pearl Harbor.)
12/08/06
To sit before the film is to participate in a ritual of solidarity and redemption, to which the flimsiness of two-thirds of the movie is irrelevant.
11/11/06
There are no histrionics, simply strong storytelling, involving us in the lives of two men, their families, and by default, the many whose lives were touched by this unforgettable tragedy
11/10/06
So factual and earnest that it misses the chance to say something meaningful.
11/09/06
(Director Oliver) 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.
10/26/06
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10/01/06
These are voices that deserve to be heard and that there are filmmakers like Stone willing to hear them is more important than anything that might follow.
10/01/06
It's almost as if Stone wants to ingratiate himself with the mainstream public that rejected his historical blockbuster Alexander and win the approval of his right-wing critics.
09/30/06
It’s a reasonably entertaining movie, but it comes nowhere close to the sheer, heart-pounding terror of the ultimate 9/11 film, United 93.
09/29/06
Even without his box of political tricks, Oliver Stone remains the foremost cinematic shrink for America’s distress.
09/29/06
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