World Trade Centre

Lou Wallace

World Trade Centre sees Nicholas Cage lead a team of emergency services officers into the disaster zone of the 2001 September 11 attacks, and outlines the survival of two policemen.

This Hollywood blockbuster managed to focus solely on the rescue of Nicholas Cage and his trade mark teary eyed demeanor. It scratched the surface of what was a devastating event for millions around the world, and failed to outline how it affected their lives.

The far from epic account has been described as a ‘pitiful attempt’, and that ‘replacing the term "police officer" with "miner" and "World Trade Center" with "coal mine", the entire script would work perfectly as a cave-in disaster movie’.

Predictable in nature, the cast does this movie no favors, and the story line gives the audience no particular plot to hold on to. The events of this day deserve more respect than to be made into a generic, poorly-written disaster movie less than five years after it happened.