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As it would have probably taken another 30 hours to prise out more substantial detail from the man, you have to give Stone credit where it is due.

Stone emphasises the loss of innocence to an extent beyond credibility.

It’s quite a maze to pick your way through as a viewer and Stone does his best ease the path.

The film is gratuitous and gross, treating the audience as cretins.

Leads and support cast alike march their talents off a cliff like the most earnest of lemmings.

Oliver Stone takes the story and gives it slick mainstream polish, bringing the issue home in a way that is understandable and urgent, even if his hero ends up seeming almost too good to be true.

Oliver Stone directs like a grasshopper on amphetamines.

There are loads of characters, tonnes of things going on, and little to no reason to invest.

If there is one word to describe World Trade Center it would be 'reverent'. If it wasn't so well directed, so well acted, so well edited, Stone might be accused of going soft.

In the end I found myself won over by the charm of this film's various creative idiosyncrasies and by the charisma of Brolin’s performance.

A morality tale where the theme of loyalty looms large, but which also skewers the materialistic Eighties and the yuppie, money-obsessed brace-wearing capitalists who dominated it.