Agent provocateur Oliver Stone's microcosmic, deeply respectful, resolutely nonpartisan human-interest story, from a screenplay by Andrea Berloff, is light-years away from the BATTLE OF ALGIERS-style political thriller he publicly envisioned making about 9/11 during the nerves-afire aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. In fact, this fact-based story of "courage and survival" may be the least provocative and most conventional film of a notoriously contentious career, a film whose formulaic roots will be immediately apparent to anyone who's ever seen a claustrophobic film about miners trapped in a cave-in, mountain climbers buried by an aval...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
125 mins