November 23, 2006

United 93 (2006)

I finally got around to watching United 93 (2006) on DVD last night. Wow!

I was surprised at how writer/director Paul Greengrass managed to engage the viewer up until the final moments of the film. You can’t help but remember where you were on 9/11 when you watch United 93. You start to relive that day the deeper into the film you get.

Before you know it, you feel like one of the doomed passengers and catch a glimpse of how awful and terrifying it must have been. United 93 is powerful filmmaking and worth a rental if you haven’t seen it. ***½

Films are rated from 1 to 4 stars.

Posted in DVD Reviews at 11:37 PM

Comments

Comment # 1

Jay,

Do you really think a bunch of pop cans to the head of some guys holding box cutters really caused the plane to go down! It was shot down by an F-14 Tomcat! I think TomKat I mean “Mavrick” was flying it too!

It is actually quite difficult to fly a plane into the ground the way Flight 93 did. You’d have to have loss of engine power and disable to auto pilot as well.

Posted by: JB on November 24, 2006 12:22 PM

Comment # 2

I still don’t think I’ll see it. Too traumatic. I scared.

Posted by: Shiz on November 27, 2006 2:33 AM

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