Very Tasteful and Moving

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2006)

I was not sure what to expect from a movie that was born from one of the biggest tragedies in American history; however, I was very pleasantly surprise to find that this movie was exceptionally tasteful and very moving. I thought Oliver Stone did an exquisite job of taking the human element of caring for one another and banding together as Americans in times of perilous crisis and making that the main focus of this movie. This was not what I had anticipated. After being 10 minutes into the film, I totally forgot that Nicolas Cage was Nicolas Cage playing a part and not one of PAPD's finest. At the end, I felt compelled to want to meet these two very brave men that nearly died. I found it very interesting how Oliver Stone was able to "thumb his nose" at the parties responsible for the devastation by not giving them one once of real credit or validation. I also came out of the movie with a renewed since of respect for him on how he weaved actual pieces of the news related to the attacks into the movie to help tell the story. I cannot find one bad thing to say about this movie and I feel that Oliver Stone definitely did that awful day justice in the making of the movie.