Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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August 30, 2009
A questioning artist neutering himself for the sake of uplift
August 16, 2006
[World Trade Center] doesn't pretend to encompass the entire catastrophe of 9/11, and that is its great negative virtue.
August 15, 2006
The world may not make sense anymore, but Oliver Stone, a warrior still, celebrating courage and endurance, has, in his own way, come home.
October 26, 2006
(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.
August 10, 2006
[T]here's much discussion about whether audiences are 'ready' to see a mainstream movie about the events of 9/11... That's your choice, but you'll be missing one of the best films of the year.
August 25, 2007
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.
July 23, 2007
No particular reason to exist other than to garland itself with medals for telling an Uplifting True Story About Good Men.
February 28, 2008
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.
September 19, 2008
A tentative mixture of tearjerker and disaster movie, cautious due to the requirement that it bear witness to the true-life heroism, staying within the tonal range that is sanctioned for American films depicting 9/11.
July 14, 2007
A loving, respectful, much-deserved tribute.
September 28, 2006
Destiny pervades the project, and anyone who expected Stone to toe anything other than the company line was gravely mistaken.
August 10, 2006
Stone may be the bluntest instrument in Hollywood's arsenal, but watching his new film about the collapse of the Twin Towers, I found myself nostalgic for his chutzpah.
