I don't know why Stone did it!

Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2007)

This is my first comment here, but I think it's great to read and be read.
I'm a TV writer and an independent filmmaker (writer, director, editor and sometimes cinematographer), and I think of Mr. Stone as my mentor although I haven't met him of course. There is none of his movies that I don't adore, and I wait his movies like those two heroic cops were waiting to be rescued in the movie. The 9/11 events were a real devastating disaster. I'm not sorry or sad about the buildings or the expenses, but I am truly sorry about those three thousand people died in there. It was really hard and unbearable to kill people massively this way. I really don't believe how would somebody plan to this and then do it.
On the other hand, I don't think it was devastating for Americans only, but it was also to the whole world. In the name of the 9/11 events the American administration killed thousands of people and destroyed two countries and there are lots still to come. The film didn't mention anything about who did it or who is responsible - that is a good thing about the film I believe since it didn't politicallize the events. But the film was actually boring, and it was nothing like what you expect from Oliver Stone. The film could be deeper, or at least more moving, if it (the film) spoke of more important things in the events. It's not enough, not enough at all to show those two brave guys in their situation. I think there is much to be said about the 9/11 and of course I'm not asking Mr. Stone to say it all in a film, but I don't think he should picture American establishments as angels and that they have the right to "revenge" because they can never revenge anything because of many reasons that we can maybe say in other places, they can only destroy and they can only put their anger on innocent people. Mr. Stone might have meant this film to be a message of love and forgiveness, but it wasn't and I guess all the people saw the film would know why and I also think that Mr. Stone would know why.
No doubt that the characters played by Cage and Pena deserve a movie about their braveness and heroism, but not to be done by Oliver Stone, maybe by another director, and if so, he should've done it better - forget the political issues and the questions that 9/11 raised, at least, do it more cleverly, make it a little bit more beautiful and more moving and less boring.
After all, I would like to say that Oliver Stone remains for me as the BEST DIRECTOR in the world, and I can say that with confidence although I know Fellini, Tornatore and Goddard and hundreds of names that worked in cinema and made it better. But I still believe that it is Mr. Stone who made cinema different, and that cinema after he started making films was never the same.