Genre: Drama
Tagline: The World Saw Evil That Day. Two Men Saw Something Else.
Plot: 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 requirement of his daily, 1 1/2-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.A team of PAPD first responders drove from mid-town Manhattan to the World Trade Center. Five men, including McLoughlin and Jimeno, went into the buildings themselves and were trapped when the towers collapsed. Miraculously, McLoughlin and Jimeno survived, but were buried and pinned beneath slabs of concrete and twisted metal, 20 feet below the rubble field. Though they couldn't see each other, each could hear that the other had survived, and for the next 12 hours, McLoughlin and Jimeno kept each other alive - talking about their families, their lives on the force, their hopes, their disappointments. Meanwhile their wives (Donna McLoughlin in Goshen, New York, and Allison Jimeno in Clifton, New Jersey), children, and parents suffer their own confined circle of hell, with no
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 World Trade Center makes an excellent companion piece to United 93. The films have different styles and they present diverse perspectives of a day that has limitless faces. Both are thoughtful, intelligent, and emotionally potent. They provoke and challenge, asking us not only to face our memories but to question our future. By being less political than he has ever been, Stone offers a movie that can be embraced by movie-goers who sit on the left side of the theater, in the center, or on the right...  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Oliver Stone has made another great-looking movie, but despite the director's daring effort to document the unspeakable, it's a disappointing Hollywood attempt to make a softer and friendlier 9/11 story for those who need such a thing to deal with the effects of the terrorist attacks. In the end, it's as much about Stone's own patriotic views as it is about the police officers, and it comes across like an overt Oscar plea, using hokey and obvious melodrama that couldn't possibly work. 5.5/10--Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net)
...does have moments of unbearable horror for more sensitive viewers, but there is a dominant mood of optimism in the middle of all the debris that is more than worth the time invested in this perfectly executed historical drama. A--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
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...The movie means well, and we can appreciate the sentiment; it works on the level of heartbreaking spectacle, but it doesn't add more to our wisdom. 6/10--Jeffrey Chen (WindowToMovies.com)
A heartfelt tribute to those who lived and died at the twin towers.--Kirk Honeycutt (Hollywod Reporter)
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