World Trade Centre review

Newsbytes: To say this movie scares you is an understatement.

Youth Voice:

We were all there when the Twin Towers collapsed, however not many people survived to tell the story of what events unfolded inside.

The perfectly respectful and respectable World Trade Centre may not be the Oliver Stone movie that either his fans or his enemies had anticipated, leading to the obvious question: where is the anger? However, the film is far too dramatic to need an injection of anger and there is none of the patriotic style we might be used to from Hollywood (Pearl Harbour for example) It also avoids becoming a clichéd “tragic love story”.

World Trade Centre simply and honestly tells the story of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped under tons of rubble when the World Trade Centre towers collapsed on Sept 11th and were eventually among the handful rescued alive.

World Trade Centre persuasively captures the injured men’s struggle to stay alive in the burning shifting wreckage and their loved ones’ agonising wait for word of their fates. Watching the film, we appreciate the fantastic efforts of rescue workers and the general air of shock and fear that permeated the worst day in many people’s living memory.

To say this movie scares you is an understatement, when I was watching the movie on the second day of release (due to a first day sell out) I couldn’t help but shudder at the fact that this really happened!

This is a ‘love it because you care’ or ‘hate it because you don’t care’ type of movie, a cold but true fact in my opinion. World Trade Centre is very shocking but also heart warming- it’s much better than the average movie we’re seen this year. Go see it!

Rating 7/10

By Daniel Purcell, 19, from Speak Up! A youth media group supported by the Letterkenny Youth Information Centre and The Loft Lk Youth project.

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