- Nov 18, 2005
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Here's my review:
The end of the movie sees the dedication of it to those who perished, and lists the names of the Port Authority Police Department. After the movie ended, my girl and I sat there and didn't move. And neither did the rest of the staff screening the movie. It took a moment, and then it hit us.... wow. One would assume this movie had added drama to make it more movie-friendly, and thus before scoring it, it is necessary to know the stories behind the families involved, including the two PAPD officers. Watching documentaries of the filming of the movie helped, as it was explained that the extras who rescued the trapped people from the rubble in the movie were real rescuers from that dreadful day, and the two officers were on set and said that Nicholas Cage and Michael Pena played the roles perfectly.
That is good news, as one might say that Cage was dry, but as the movie plays on, the dry-acting Cage grows more and more on the viewer, and it becomes understood that is what the officer was like. Drama isn't necessary to add, as the families involved had every bit of drama life could throw at them. The movie isn't as much about the events of 9/11 as it is about the effects of 9/11, and how that day changed the families.
One should not watch the movie expecting a documentary of the events, but rather the story of the hell the two officers visited, and the life-changing hours that followed.
A good portion of the movie is in the rubble, but this is not a negative. This is where the story shines, as you truely learn the lives of the officers, and how little everyone involved truely new.
8/10
A gripping movie, one that if I hadn't already wanted to bash the skulls in of the terrorists in the middle east, I would want to now. I bleed red, white, and blue.. and the story of 9/11 only makes that blood bleed truer.
The end of the movie sees the dedication of it to those who perished, and lists the names of the Port Authority Police Department. After the movie ended, my girl and I sat there and didn't move. And neither did the rest of the staff screening the movie. It took a moment, and then it hit us.... wow. One would assume this movie had added drama to make it more movie-friendly, and thus before scoring it, it is necessary to know the stories behind the families involved, including the two PAPD officers. Watching documentaries of the filming of the movie helped, as it was explained that the extras who rescued the trapped people from the rubble in the movie were real rescuers from that dreadful day, and the two officers were on set and said that Nicholas Cage and Michael Pena played the roles perfectly.
That is good news, as one might say that Cage was dry, but as the movie plays on, the dry-acting Cage grows more and more on the viewer, and it becomes understood that is what the officer was like. Drama isn't necessary to add, as the families involved had every bit of drama life could throw at them. The movie isn't as much about the events of 9/11 as it is about the effects of 9/11, and how that day changed the families.
One should not watch the movie expecting a documentary of the events, but rather the story of the hell the two officers visited, and the life-changing hours that followed.
A good portion of the movie is in the rubble, but this is not a negative. This is where the story shines, as you truely learn the lives of the officers, and how little everyone involved truely new.
8/10
A gripping movie, one that if I hadn't already wanted to bash the skulls in of the terrorists in the middle east, I would want to now. I bleed red, white, and blue.. and the story of 9/11 only makes that blood bleed truer.
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