World Trade Center / **1/2 ()
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006‘’This is not a political film. The mantra is ‘This is not a political film.’” — Oliver Stone, New York Times (July 2, 2006)
“It is one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving, God Bless America films you will ever see.” — right-wing syndicated columnist Cal Thomas (July 20, 2006)
“World Trade Center” is about two men who, against all odds, survived the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. It combines fragments of two movies — the one that Stone describes above, and the other that Cal Thomas flips over. It is a disaster movie and a feel-good inspirational movie — both based on true stories — and that is why I am of two minds about it.