true story

Rating: 6/10 (17 September 2007)

First i would like to say that i'm very surprised to see Nicolas Cage in this type of movie, and i give him credit for tackling this role it must not have been very easy to accept a role like this. Anyway here goes. great opening lead ins. great footage of different part of N.Y.C. and surrounding area, as i'm very familiar with it, i was in New York City.. lower, and midtown, Manhattan, twice 95 for a day, and once in 96, spent the night,, i drove.... anyway point being i got to see the towers before they came down, and after they were repaired during the 93 attack. back to the movie here, i love the way Oliver Stone portrayed the attack, and didn't show the actual plane,, just the shadow,, the building falling, all of that footage was good,,, the part that just gets me to know end is why in a movie, when a true story is portrayed, why don't they give you hmm in this one, i wanted more, rescuers, rescuing survivors,, or trying to,, i wanted to see firefighters, putting out fires, police trying to help, instead i got a pair of Transit Authority cops stuck 20-50 ft. below the concourse. but Stone focused on that, and nothing else. maybe that was his intention i guess, i just hoped to see like some dramatic rescue attempts,, y ou know stuff like that, and being stuck on one group of persons, just knocked the film down a few points for me,, but otherwise i don't have a problem with it.