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This film was a brilliant film based on courage and survival. This was a very enjoyable film but it did have a few flaws. I think the two flaws that it had was that the film made it seem like those two cops were the only victims within the World Trade Center terrorist attack but there were 2,000 others. I got a tiny bit bored in the middle. It was a bit too long for me It is a very tragic tale of an event that made the world saw pure evil that day. It hit the world big time and still affects the world because of the war that's going on now. September 11, 2001 is a day that not only Americans will forget but other people around the world won't forget. At first I was against them for making both World Trade Center and United 93 because both films were released the same year and they would battle against each other but also the actual event only occurred five years ago at the time whereas it's not far from 10 years ago now.
I think the acting was the other flaw of this film. Where it came to the Jimeno's the acting was good from Michael Pena and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Will and Alison Jimeno but I didn't really like Nicolas Cage and Maria Bello as John and Donna McLoughlin. I couldn't really get into Nicolas Cage as John McLoughlin because I don't think he showed the character with very much enthusiasm and believability. All I could hear from Cage was all of these stupid groans "Ohhhh" this and "ohhh" that. Also, when he was talking to Will he was like "yyyyyyeahhhhhh, Wiilllllll" and that was the only thing that annoyed me about this film. Maria Bello didn't make it any better. She isn't a very good actress. Well, she can't be after replacing Rachel Weisz in The Mummy and the third one was bad critically. Michael Pena was the best of the cast as Will Jimeno because he was more of a realistic character and was more desperate to get back to his family than John was. Pena truly did portray Jimeno like he is a real-life person even though he really is whereas Cage didn't. Maggie Gyllenhaal was good as well as Alison Jimeno. I think she was the more heartbroken, gutted and deeply worrying wife than Maria Bello was.
World Trade Center is one of the works that Oliver Stone didn't earn enough credit for. World Trade Center is a beautifully filmed story that perhaps could have had a better director and could have had a better cast but couldn't have been better told regarding the story. Oliver Stone has been a director of creating films that effect America like Kennedy's assassination (JFK), Ron Kovic in Vietnam war (Born On The Fourth Of July) and now this. He is a decent director, well, he was but he needs a breakthrough Oscar film.
Overall, World Trade Center is a flawed but enjoyable film that I would watch again. It could have had a better director and a better cast for this film to make it more believable and realistic. Nicolas Cage needs a breakthrough and he needs one badly because as far as I'm and probably most people are concerned, his acting ability is going down the drain. McLoughlin's weren't very believable whereas the Jimeno's were. Middle part got a little bit boring but came together well in the end. I would have rated this film 4.5 if there weren't any of those flaws. I enjoyed watching this and I would watch again at some point in the future.
8/10
