| OK, I wasn't at first planning to (I went to the theatre to see Talladega Nights, but I misread the listings and ended up missing the start) but I saw the film today.
I thought it was really good.
For those saying that this movie is exploiting the attacks, the attack is over and done with in the first half hour. In that time, even though there are some disturbing visuals, there are only two deaths shown.
The next hour and a half deals with the two port authority officers trapped in the rubble (played by Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena) trying to survive, interspersed with scenes with their families trying to cope.
Personally, I felt the film was very respectful to the victims of 9/11. Other than a shadow of a plane, there is no visuals of the attack. While the film does recreate the burning buildings, any footage of them collapsing is done with achived news broadcasts (and even then, it's only brief images).
In addition, at the end of the film, there is a list of all the port authority officiers that died in the attacks.
So yeah, it's not a bad film and it's probably actually the best film Oliver Stone has done for a while (though, admittedly, this is only the second of his films I've seen) |