World Trade Center

Name: World Trade Center
Genre: Drama, History
Released: August 9, 2006
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Nicolas Cage

2006

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2006 | PG-13

Starring: Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Nicolas Cage

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 requirementSeptember 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 requirement of his daily, 1½-hour trek to the city. They and their colleagues made their way to midtown Manhattan, just like they did any other day. Only this wasn't any other day. (Paramount)… Expand

Director: Oliver Stone

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 129 min

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David Ansen

World Trade Center celebrates the ties that bind us, the bonds that keep us going, the goodness that stands as a rebuke to the horror of that day. Perhaps, in the future, the times will call for more challenging, or polemical, or subversive visions. Right now, it feels like the 9/11 movie we need. Read full review

James Berardinelli

World Trade Center is Stone's most potent motion picture since "Platoon," and may be the most accessible across-the-board since "Wall Street." Read full review

David Denby

This square movie, at its best, is very powerful. Read full review

Brian Lowry

World Trade Center yields lovely and touching moments but proves a slow-going, arduous movie experience. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Like Stone's "Platoon," World Trade Center has the visceral stuff it takes to appeal to audiences of all political stripes. Unlike "Platoon," however, its sense of craft feels impersonal. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Perhaps only a marginally effective movie about 9/11, because, I suspect, there can be no such thing as an effective movie about 9/11 -- at least not right now. Read full review

Pete Vonder Haar

Almost unforgivably sentimental. Read full review

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JohnF.

Oct 24, 2008

Very emotional movie. THe acting was excellent and you never know how it will end until it is over. Great movie.

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HectorM.

Aug 12, 2006

This Movie Deserves a 10 out of 10. have some common scense. R.I.P. WTC

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[Anonymous]

Aug 15, 2006

A good film with great pacing. Keeps you interested the whole two hours. Truth is stranger than fiction and this film proves it. The whole thing is handled very tastefully through the eyes of the men who were there. Must see.

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ShaneK.

Aug 9, 2006

I won't say I was impressed, nor disappointed. The movie is worth seeing, but comparing it to United 93 is unjust. This is a completely different story, and much darker. There are great acting performances but the acting as a whole is below average. Worth seeing, but don' t expect I won't say I was impressed, nor disappointed. The movie is worth seeing, but comparing it to United 93 is unjust. This is a completely different story, and much darker. There are great acting performances but the acting as a whole is below average. Worth seeing, but don' t expect too much.… Expand

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RobertM.

Aug 10, 2006

Throughout this movie I kept thinking that I was watching people talking and emoting like, well, like actors, and not like actual people I know. Also, iIn focussing on the pitiful number of survivors of the attacks, the movie tells the least typical and most user-friendly of the stories of Throughout this movie I kept thinking that I was watching people talking and emoting like, well, like actors, and not like actual people I know. Also, iIn focussing on the pitiful number of survivors of the attacks, the movie tells the least typical and most user-friendly of the stories of that day, which to me is a cop-out. If you want to get a better sense of the attrocities of 9/11, go see the far more realistic and grim "United 93".… Expand

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PatrickW.

Aug 18, 2006

I think your missing the point Manny, Drew doesn't actually think it was a satire. He was just saying it was so bad it could have been.

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CorbinL.

Aug 13, 2006

I think this was the worst movie I have ever seen in my whole life. The acting was terrible, with some actors failing misearebly at New York accents the really took away from the believability of the film. I have seen better production in Lifetime made for TV movies.

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