Gracie Mae's Reviews and Writings :-): Movie Review: "World Trade Center" 08/09/06

My movie review for "World Trade Center", released August 9, 2006. We watched this in August of 2019.

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Run Time: 2 Hours and 9 Minutes

Trailer

Notable Cast

Nicolas Cage ... John McLoughlin
Maria Bello ... Donna McLoughlin
Michael Peña ... Will Jimeno
Armando Riesco ... Antonio Rodrigues
Jay Hernandez ... Dominick Pezzulo

Plot

Where were you when the World Trade Centers towers were attacked in New York City? This movie is the story of first responders (specifically NYPD) trying to help those in the towers after they had been hit. Can they get the civilians out safely? Can they themselves survive?

Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):

G / General Audiences

PG / Parental Guidance Suggested

PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned

R / Restricted

Not Rated

Rating Criteria

0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.

1/5 – Barely worth any time.

2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.

3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.

4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.

5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.

3.5/5 - I remember 9/11 vaguely but also strongly. When we got to school, it was on the television all day long. In my lifetime, this is the worst thing that has happened [second worst is this COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 virus/attack and the quarantine worldwide shutting down everything {March 2020}].

As for this movie, it was very vivid and brought that day back to remembrance. It also helped get a feel for what it was like first hand there in the city for the first responders, their families, and for all other citizens. We knew that the tower would collapse but of course, the actors did not portray that - they acted as the real first responders did and merely did their jobs. Of course it was very stressful for them and I wouldn't give any problems to the actual first responders to break down under the pressure, but they kept at it. When the towers fell, I never thought about what it would have been like to be trapped under the rubble but the movie continued on about how a few of the NYPD had to try to survive as they were trapped. [Honestly, once the towers fell, I would have preferred to keep the actual NYPD people "out of mind" and dealt with how everyone outside was trying to figure out how to find them....] It seemed stupid that a random soldier, that put his military uniform on, went down to the site and helped them find the trapped people but..... {Hence the downgrade on the rating.}

This is a very interesting movie but I definitely lost a lot of attention after the towers collapsed. I don't know how it is for others; that's my beef with this movie.

Anyways, that's all I have to say about this movie. It isn't bad. I personally wouldn't pay to watch this again, but I do recommend at least part of it for reference sake.

That's my movie review. Thanks for reading! More reviews are to come eventually.

~ Gracie Mae DeLunac

P.S. NYC has built a new building to replace the towers that were taken down. It is called the Freedom Tower, or One World Trade Center. This is a video about how it has been modified to sustain damage, learning from the destruction that came around on 9/11.

What if the One World Trade Center was Attacked?: