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Original Sin (2001)
erratic characters, implausible story, but nice lighting
I was expecting a good story, good character development, excellent acting from Jolie & Banderas, and some great erotic scenes.
What I got was a very implausible story that zigzags from love to murderous revenge and back again, no backstory, unsympathetic characters with erratic behavior, and a weird sadistic bisexual boyfriend/pimp (Thomas Jane's character). The sex scenes seemed passionless and were barely erotic. The acting by Banderas and Jolie was good, as were the sets, locations, and lighting, but it didn't rescue the film.
Don't waste your time on this movie.
The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon (2002)
mostly good, but inaccurate on counter-terrorism
"The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" is pretty good: it discusses the planning, construction, collapse, recovery, and cleanup of the buildings. Curiously, it never mentions that many people found the buildings ugly, or that the WTC had low occupancy during its early years due to a glut of office space downtown.
I was shocked at one highly inaccurate statement made in the video: that after the 1993 bombing of the WTC "no one dreamed that some 8 1/2 years later, (al Qaeda) would bring death, not from a bomb in the basement, but from the sky".
Wrong.
In 1995, people within the White House knew of al Qaeda plans to hijack jetliners in Manila and blow them up over the pacific (see Richard Clarke's book "Against All Enemies", or "9/11 Commission Report" page 147). And in the summer of 2001, an FBI agent in Minneapolis communicated to headquarters that they were worried that Moussaoui might be part of an al Qaeda plot to crash an airplane into the World Trade Center (9/11 Report, page 275).
Writers of this documentary: you should have done your homework!