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So sad....beautiful story. If only they could overcome that sh*t faced Muslim, Arab terrorist. These people's minds are trained to believe that they are supposed to fu3king kill people and reek havoc and destruction.

- Of course there's a lot of emotion attached to the subject matter of this film but these events are better saved for brief scenes in a History Channel documentary, not a full length film. I was bored 90% of the time.

One of the best, if not the best, of 2006 also one of the best pictures ever made. Poignant, dramatic, thoughtful and wonderful use of unknowns. Nowhere was it ever more important than to NOT have a "star," (note Nick Cage in Twin Towers--awful) and the semi-documentary style of the piece is especially important to capture the fears, feelings and bravery of all involved. Crash best of 2006? Or BrokeBack Mountain? Not if the world, and Hollywood especially, weren't so nervous to actually and truthfully speak their minds!!!

After viewing such a well made, riveting film, the question must be asked, " did it need to be made?" In my opinion, the answer is no. We all know what happened on 9/11, and to have it dramatized, is to me, a slight upon the memory of those whose lives were lost on that tragic day. In this film's case, most of what happens is speculative at best, since there is no satisfactory record regarding what actually occured on that fatal flight. This film serves more as a bastion of blind American patriotism than as a historical drama. Even so, the film is well crafted in a documentary style that entertains as such films are expected to do.

I will never, ever watch World Trade Center, and it's not because I'm emotional. I'm stone cold, baby. I'll shoot Old Yeller right now. It's because it demonstrates everything sick and wrong about Hollywood, and because it's the movie nobody wanted. How fucking twisted is it that all anyone could talk about on 9/11 was how much it felt like a movie, and how we all knew Hollywood would try to capitalize on that someday. Except I thought they would wait twenty years, not six. Anyway, it puts that movie to shame that in the same year, Paul Greengrass made a movie that sort of defies description, and certainly explodes expectations, by making a movie from the same events that doesn't feel exploitative in any way. Much like Zodiac, Greengrass shows how interesting real life details can be, by making a movie that sticks to exact evidence as much as humanly possible, and never forces the rules of mainstream cinema into his docudrama. The performances of the passengers on the plane are good, but the performances of the air traffic controllers are AMAZING, and those are the parts of the movie that really make it something to me. Watching people just doing their job, and trying their best under really weird and unpredictable circumstances, and in such a natural way that it makes me retrospectively turn against something like Apollo 13, or any other movie that tries to turn a bunch of people sitting at computers into something bigger than it really is. Anyway, it sounds like I'm raving, but that's just because naturalism is so rare in a movie that I get really excited when I see such a well-done example of it. As a 9/11 movie, United 93 is as good as it could ever be, and as effortlessly inoffensive as it could ever be. On its own terms, though, it's just a well-acted, but just-decent film, whose adherance to the real-life timeline, which I think was mandatory in this scenario, is also sort of a curse since it feels a little lopsided when seven events happen in a five-second period, and then not much happens for thirty minutes. And finally, the question of whether or not this movie should have/needed to be made... ultimately, I think it's 50/50. No, we didn't NEED it, but I do think it might help a lot of people understand the exact details, and I think it works as a nice tribute to everyone involved.
The only performances that I thought seemed less than spot-on were the terrorists, who I was constantly reminded of their actorness through their possibly overdone quirks... but on the other hand, I literally can't think of any other role in the history of filmmaking that would have been harder to play, so I give them a great big pass.

What a piece of crap. That's all i can say. HUGE piece of crap. It basically goes as such: "we are going to make a movie about that plane that crashed on 911(likely shot down) and put lots of mommies and their babies to appeal to the idiot americans emotions. They will watch it and be like 'omg its so heartfelt and sad! gosh!' and the passengers will call their familes throughout the movie(even though its likely impossible they could have ever called them or maintained a signal) so they will be sucked into it even more. OH LOOK it worked! bahaha were rich!" /THE END

I ask you if two men came up to you and about 30 other people would all 30 of you bow down to them? ITS A BOX CUTTER for christs sake. haha. i mean honestly. a few cuts aint gonna kill you. Also i love how in the "original recording" from the plane the mothers son was like "hi mom this is mark BINGHAM" yeah when you call your mother im sure you use your last name. I'm also sure like only 5 people on the plane had their cell phones. That seems HIGHLY unlikely considering how many carry cell phones. Then the reports that they found luggage with all the passports of the hijackers. Yeah sure, they would bring luggage and also filled it with information of how they planned to attack. Also the hijackers turned up alive and well living in Iraq so WOW they somehow transported back to Iraq right before the crash!! amazing! At this point i wouldn't be surprised if the passengers from the flights later turn up alive as well.

It's really pathetic how high ratings this poor excuse for a movie and an even poorer excuse for what really happened to flight 93. Give us the truth already, the rest of you WAKE UP and demand the truth as well. Thanks to the Americans that buy into these types of stories hundreds of innocents die in Iraq, people with families just like you. You could stop it but you choose not to, pathetic.

I don't believe there has been a film as moving, inspiring, or horrifying this decade as "United 93." This is a truly bold film, depicting the events that occurred nearly five years ago on September 11th, 2001. United 93 is a film of equal controversy as "The Passion of the Christ" and shares the same emotional power. Some have asked, "Is it too early for a 911 related theatrical release?" United 93 answers this question with a, "No."

Even after five years, I still remember waking up on that Tuesday morning of September 11th, 2001. To this date, the images of the Twin Towers imploding, leaving people running and crying in a frantic manner, still haunts my memory. United 93 reenacts those haunting events, that nearly brought me to tears by the ending scene.

The film doesn't follow the same formula of most disaster pictures in which the heroes have backgrounds and instantly become action stars. What I love about United 93 is that it does not tell a story about characters. Rather, it tells a story about people. The film tells a story about ordinary people that rise as heroes. This is a film so true that it almost seems like a firsthand look of the events that occurred on Flight 93.

Although we are never properly introduced to the films characters, I couldn't help but feel for them. At one point, the audience might even believe that these people might even make it out alright. Unfortunately, we also know that they can't and won't make it out alive. The film is truly scary as these people say goodbye to their family over aircraft phones and fight their way to the cockpit to gain control over the hijacked plane.

I especially had much respect for writer/director Paul Greengrass. Greengrass does for this movie what James Cameron did for the film "Titanic." This film recreates these events that occurred in almost exact time. I nearly counted down the last hour the plane had before it crashed. Greengrass has earned Oscar-level direction in this film.

The events that occurred on September 11th, 2001 have caused the United States of America to learn how to function and even prosper as a country again. United 93 reminds Americans why we must remain united as a country. The terrifying final sequence of this movie nearly brought me tears of suspense and sadness. It is not common for a movie to have that kind of effect on me.

Director Paul Greengrass has created a truly unique, nailbiting "docu-thriller" that takes a subject most Americans are overfamiliar with and turns it into a film that is heroic, suspenseful, and tragic. Filmed documentary-style, "93" foregoes the typical disaster film setup by presenting its story in real-time, first in multiple air traffic control centers, then on-board the doomed flight. Not once does this film feel theatrical, which, given the subject matter, is justified as the events themselves do not need to be overdramatized. Instead, the viewer feels like an employee in one of the control centers during the first half, and like a passenger on board the plane in the second half. Greengrass presents us with an ultra-realistic documentation so powerful in its details that many American viewers will find themselves feeling as uncomfortable as they were on September 11, 2001.

Greengrass was the perfect choice for director of this film. It really showed the honor of those who fought back that day in History. Excellent Film.

An INCREDIBLE film in my opinion. A must see.

-dm