A 9/11 truther review of World Trade Center

Rating: 1/10 (26 August 2006)

I did not like it at all. It dragged on mercilessly. I may have gone in with a bad idea of the movie but I am a movie person so I try to keep my mind open when I go to movies even if they are hyped. I couldn't tell if Oliver Stone was being sarcastic with us, the 9/11 truth movement or not. The collapses were only shown on television broadcast both WTCs 1 & 2 as well as WTC7. The hype about the explosions versus the bodies hitting the ground was bunk. Explosions were never brought up in the movie at all but he did show one body falling from the towers which I believe was uncalled for in this movie. But there was the horrifying sounds of the bodies hitting the ground on many occasions in the movie and the officers reacting aback to the sounds as it did the lady sitting to my right on several occasions. And he had one shot of old Bushy boy in one of his scenes on television telling us that we were at war and America was under attack. What a jerk I said out loud. As for the molten steel in the basement, there was on several occasions fire surrounding the officers in the rubble and a few times what looked like fireballs that flew back and forth passed them while they were trapped. He used the vision of Jesus on several occasion in the movie as one of the officers uses it as a symbol to keep himself awake with Jesus holding a bottle of water saying that it means he wants them to stay alive. And then it appears that the person that found the 2 officers was a very religious Marine that went to church to profess his faith before he went to the pile. It then says the Marine went on to reenlist and fight two tours in Iraq. Then there is the one line that puzzled me into wondering what Oliver Stone was really trying to say with the movie. One of the wives was in the ER waiting for her husband when they are watching the TV when the mother of another possible entrapped person at the WTC says that when she saw the buildings "pancake" like that... Now was he being sarcastic or was he really believing the government's story? Also there are several times when people in the movie make intimations to getting, you know who and that we're at war. And at the end, to me it seems like he was making a movie backing the government's story and the war in Iraq, though he does list the names of the fallen PAPD officers and mentions that 343 FDNY firefighters, 37 PAPD, 23 NYPD and that nearly 3000 people died and that only 20 people were pulled out alive and that the 2 officers were number 18 and 19.
So after it was over, I had to sit there and recover a little as all I could remember was the month I sat like a zombie hoping that they would find more firefighters alive. I am an ex-FDNY dispatcher. I may have known some of the dead firefighters, not personally but I may have eaten dinner with them at their firehouses in the Wall Street district. Then I went out to my car and called my wife and she does not believe in our side of the issue at all, the 9/11 Truth Movement. So she just listened which is a miracle in itself as she usually tells me to stop talking about 9/11. I really didn't like it as a movie and I expected more from Oliver Stone.