劇情簡介
9/11，美國人心中的痛，如烙印永烙在心中。奧利弗·斯通的《世貿中心》讓時光倒流，重現那場災難的一幕幕。講敘了9/11災難中英雄的故事。尼古拉斯·凱奇扮演的消防警察和其他同事一起去救人的，結果被轟然倒塌的大廈壓在廢墟下，唯一幸存的兩個警察在廢墟下經歷了各種常人無法想象的痛苦......
影片簡評
心慈手軟地放了美國總統一馬(《刺殺肯尼迪》、《尼克松》)，改拿史上首位擁有橫跨歐亞非三大洲領土的馬其頓帝國短命君主開涮。結果將柯林·法雷爾版的亞歷山大大帝塑造成“戀母的男同志”，華納的上億美元投資輕松打了水漂。
盡管如此，與發表引退宣言的斯科塞斯不同，頑強的斯通仍賊心不死，拍片熱情有增無減。兩尊小金人在握的他，此次將向全美空投——首次白描“9·11”恐怖襲擊的重磅炸彈(相比之下，上映中的《93號航班》只能算擦邊球)，老妖精不但不在意世俗的閑言碎語，反而很享受千夫所指的萬眾矚目。雖然忍痛讓《93號航班》先行一步，但其沖擊力與直筆“9·11”場面的《世貿中心》自不可同日而語。
尼古拉斯·凱奇扮演的消防員，既是大災難中的幸存者，又是救死扶傷的無名英雄。擅長寫實政治劇的斯通，在眾所周知的悲劇結局既定的前提下，如何見證這樁史事，乃是影片成敗的關鍵。
雖然911 已經過去了快5年，但該事件的凄慘依然仿佛在眼前，很明顯，世貿中心的轟塌會成為美國人永遠的痛。而今年，終于有電影公司開始對它磨刀霍霍，如此主題稍有不注意便會被口水淹沒，何況《世貿中心》更是大膽地選擇了在911五周年紀念的前夕上映。一向橫眉冷對千夫指的奧利弗·斯通會不會交出一個另類答案尚不可知，但如果這部“災難營救片”能挖掘出人性的真實，那么奧斯卡會給它一個交待。
Movie Review
September 11, 2001 was one of those days that cleave history in two, forever separating the Before and the After as irrecovably as it separated those who were lost from those who survived. As we watched it over and over on television, trying to make some sense of the senseless, people said the same thing, over and over, "It's like a movie."
And now, it is a movie, or, so far, three movies with certainly more to come.
That is a part of a tradition that goes back to sagas around the campfire and paintings on the walls of caves. We create stories to help us make sense of our past and to think about our hopes for the future. We are still telling stories about courage and loss through the lens of every major conflict in history. In the last few years we've seen major, big-budget movies about great tragic conflicts from the Trojan War through Operation Desert Storm. Their stories about about sacrifice and heroism are a part of the way we make sense of the world.
That very tradition, combined with events that still seem surreal to us, make it difficult for this particular take on the events of 9/11 to feel satisfying as a matter of narrative or drama. Unlike the recent United 93, which adopted an intimate, documentary style for the story of the passengers who fought back and overpowered the terrorists, this movie takes the Hollywood approach to its story of the rescue of trapped Port Authority police.
Where United 93 used unfamiliar faces to allow us to feel we were seeing the real story, World Trade Centergives us Oscar-Winner and Hollywood royalty Nicolas Cage. Where United 93 told us nothing more about the characters than was revealed in the real-time unfolding of events onscreen, making everything that happened disorienting and surprising, World Trade Center gives us the traditional Hero introduction to the characters, with flashbacks to show us their family relationships.
