The best of all the 9/11 movies. It's really that simple to me.
Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver give perhaps the best performances of their careers.
I'm somewhat unable to completely lose myself in performances in that I don't forget that I'm watching actors.
This film was an exception: I really lost track of the actors and experienced long stretches of time when I completely felt I was in the room with these people.
Most films using 9/11, either as their setting or focus or as a key moment in the plot, try to recreate the events of the day. That is what appears to be what they receive their critical acclaim for - the level of verisimilitude and their emotional 'oomph'. Instead of punching hard, like the other films do (or try to do), The Guys touches deep.
An incredibly underrated film.
Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver give perhaps the best performances of their careers.
I'm somewhat unable to completely lose myself in performances in that I don't forget that I'm watching actors.
This film was an exception: I really lost track of the actors and experienced long stretches of time when I completely felt I was in the room with these people.
Most films using 9/11, either as their setting or focus or as a key moment in the plot, try to recreate the events of the day. That is what appears to be what they receive their critical acclaim for - the level of verisimilitude and their emotional 'oomph'. Instead of punching hard, like the other films do (or try to do), The Guys touches deep.
An incredibly underrated film.