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- 2006
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
- 2006
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
Summary September 11, 2001 was an unusually warm day in New York. Will Jimeno, an officer with the Port Authority Police Department, was tempted to take a personal day to enjoy his hobby of bow hunting, but ultimately decided that he would go to work. Sergeant John McLoughlin, a respected veteran of the PAPD, had been up for hours – a requiremen...
Directed By: Oliver Stone
- 2006
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
- 2006
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
World Trade Center
66
6.7
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Summary September 11, 2001 was an unusually warm day in New York. Will Jimeno, an officer with the Port Authority Police Department, was tempted to take a personal day to enjoy his hobby of bow hunting, but ultimately decided that he would go to work. Sergeant John McLoughlin, a respected veteran of the PAPD, had been up for hours – a requiremen...
Directed By: Oliver Stone
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
66
73% Positive
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29 Reviews
28% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
66
73% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
28% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
6.7
50% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
42% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
8% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
6.7
50% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
42% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
8% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Stone's best movie in years and Nicholas Cage best role. By keeping the perspective on that of the first responders, the film provide an heartbreaking story of courage. Yes, this is the story of two very lucky men but they were as brave as any who died and by learning their story we get a little glimpse of the sacrifice so many made that day.
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I really like the direction that Oliver stone went with this movie.
He didn’t make something that was a spectacle, but something that was human.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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Awards
Gran Premio Internazionale del Doppiaggio
• 4 Nominations
Hollywood Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 2 Nominations
