Very simply, it told what happened that horrible day on the plane - though he used some license - and didn't wallow in needless sentimentality. It feels like a soap opera set against the greatest tragedy of our age, and that just doesn't work for me. She knows that Phil is so in love with Nicholas and she did it anyway. The problem with Stone's film isn't so much the story, but how Berloff chose to tell it. If you didn't know any better, you'd think Stone had a crew shooting in Lower Manhattan that day. He mercifully ditches the frenetic editing style he's employed in films like Natural Born Killers and Any Given Sunday.
There are moments that surely someone of Stone's calibre should have realized needed to be rewritten because the dialogue seems mediocre at best. What will he find out about this strange world? Yes, Maggie Gyllenhaal gave a strong performance as the pregnant wife and a lot of the moments with her family esp the brief scene with the Colombian mother-in-law praying were emotionally poignant, but so much of the family stuff was lame melodrama. We could have done so much good in the world, instead of now being one of the most hated nations in the world. She knows the two lovers are gay!!! Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Why bother with rational thought when you can scare people? Stone's storytelling is also more methodical and straightforward than it's been in recent years.
But the power of these scenes is undermined by his tendency to pour on the sappiness while largely ignoring the greater horror of the day. Screenwriter Andrea Berloff further enhances the realism with believable dialog. Finding his center of the world becomes Phil's biggest challenge. But that's exactly what Berloff has him do. The narrative is just devastating.
Stone quickly forgets this, because only about 15% of the movie even shows people coming together to help one another. What an insult to the people who died or had friends or family members who died at this terrible tragedy. The shots are pretty similar. It's just unbelievable that she caused Phil's heartbreak. The two boys are fucking a lot and she knows it.
Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he becomes obsessed with escaping. When school begins, the mysterious Nicholas enters the class. What struck me while watching the film is realizing how much goodwill was channeled toward the United States after the attacks and what's ultimately sad is how this president took all that goodwill and squandered it by launching an utterly pointless war in Iraq. The resolution is mostly handled well, I really like what Oliver Stone is trying to convey about these small gestures of heroic goodness in the face of such desolation. I understand that these characters are all closely based on real life, but it still felt very Lifetime movie of the week. Watching Cage and Pena trapped should be gripping stuff. It's a little known story from a day we know all too well.
It's remarkable how well Cage, a major movie star, disappears behind the mustache and hunched shoulders of Sgt. The film is heavily inspired from Xavier Dolan's previous films. It's a true testament to Gyllenhaal's talent that she turns a rather sour role into a passionate, moving performance. After all, as this administration and its minions love to point out, if you disagree with them, you're not only unpatriotic, but also an appeaser of the villains. Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena play Port Authority Police officers. Erwa Genres: Production Co: Prisma Film, Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion GmbH - Berlin, Mojo:pictures.
She was supposed to be Phil's bestfriend. After offering us quick glimpses into the lives of Port Authority cops John McLoughlin Nicolas Cage and Will Jimeno Michael Pena , Andrea Berloff's script gets us right into the attacks on the Twin Towers. Believe me, if I had a choice, I would have never had any interest in watching this. Cast: , , , , , , Director: Jakob M. They are also well supported by Maria Bello and Magie Gyllenhaal as their respective wives, who spend much of the film enduring an agonizing wait to learn the fate of their husbands. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Was their story well told? Oliver Stone, by comparison, has failed to effectively tie the experiences of these two trapped cops with the larger events of the day, and his film suffers as a result. A couple of moments with Pena standing there on the concourse were effective in creating a sense of horrific surrealism, and the moments right before the collapse were sudden and chilling. Furthermore, his friendship with Kat is put to test because Phil's first love causes envy and jealousy. Claire Dearing, the former park manager, has now founded the Dinosaur Protection Group, an organization dedicated to protecting the dinosaurs. Stone, on the other hand and rather surprisingly, seems to have gone out of his way to make something that would be so palatable and inoffensive that it would turn out rather bland, above anything else. The crumbling of the towers, which still is incredibly difficult to watch, let alone fathom, is handled with taste, but also is awfully gripping.
But anyway, as I predicted, well as we all predicted, actually, we were bored through the whole film. The first 45 minutes of the movie showed what Stone truly is capable of doing. I knew this was going to be utter hail America bull even before watching it. As the officers prepare to the climb the North Tower, they are unaware the South Tower has even been hit. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight.
You have to struggle to remind yourself everything you're seeing was recreated on a sound stage on inside a computer. U93 told a specific story the experience of the passengers on the plane and placed it within a context what was happening with air traffic control and the military. It's not about the roots of terror, or who's to blame for what. A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. September 11 was the most important and tragic event in my lifetime, and I think it deserves more respect than to be made into a generic, poorly-written disaster movie less than five years after it happened. Their performances are even more noteworthy considering they spend the majority of the movie flat on their backs.