On that day, if you recall, two planes hit and took down the World Trade Center towers in New York City, another plane crashed into the Pentagon and still another, that was headed for the capitol building, crashed into a field in PA. This final plane which never reached its target was United Airlines Flight 93. This film tells the tragic, yet heroic story of a band of passangers who stood up to their hijackers and prevented another disaster from occuring.
This is not a subject you want to make fun of out of respect, and if you do make fun of dying and death you are an immoral person. Almost 3000 people lost their lives on 9/11 as a result of the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.
United 93 chronicles the entire flight of the fourth hijacked plane in real time. This means that the movie is the length of the real flight, 111 minutes. Confusion on the ground during the events of 9-11 becomes evident from the first plane that stops responding, American Airlines Flight 11.
We watch, once again, in horror as the first and second World Trade Center towers are hit and then the Pentagon. The final quarter of the film takes place entirely on United 93, where we see a group of passagers plotting to overwhelm the moronic terrorists.
This film is very emotional and had a significant impact on me seeing it from a different angle, what we thought happened in the plane. I still remember and will never forget the sight of the Twin towers being destroyed on 9-11 since I was able to see all of it live.
United 93 is an excellent story of Americans being heroes and standing up for their country. Everyone should know the story of what happened, but this film brings it to light so much clearer and it is actual evidence of what could have happened.
The acting is superb! I was really surprised at how natural things seemed and how real it was potrayed. The terrorists quickly become our enemies in the film and we utterly hate their characters, as well we should. These people who believe they are killing in the name of Allah, have no conscious what so ever, that and they are retarded.
I actually loved it when the terrorists were being overcome by the passangers and never have I seen this done before on film.
The audience was dead silent at the end of this film, which I am not going to reveal. You know the story.
Paul Greengrass has himself an impressive, but slow at times, historically accurate film here. I give it 3.4 stars out of 4. Absolutely powerful, and it came at the right time.
If only he knew what was coming, maybe he would have thought twice about commiting terrorism.
