United 93 (2006)
91 %
Reviews Counted: 199 Fresh: 181 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Consensus:
Potent and sobering, United 93 is even more gut-wrenching because the outcome is already known. While difficult to watch, director Paul Greengrass' film has been made with skill and treats the subject matter with respect, never resorting to the aggrandizement of which Hollywood has sometimes been accused. Especially effective is the cast of mostly unknown actors, who portray the passengers of the doomed flight as ordinary people who respond with bravery to extraordinary circumstances.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 28, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $31,471,430
Synopsis: UNITED 93, director Paul Greengrass's meticulous reconstruction of the events surrounding the crash--the result of a heroic struggle between the passengers and hijackers--of the fourth plane to be hijacked on September 11, 2001, is a landmark in filmmaking. Greengrass has chosen the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Lewis Alsamari, J. J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Trish Gates, Polly Adams
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This is not a film you go to for enjoyment, but because you have a duty to endure it.
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02/28/08
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11/01/07
Top Critic
a real-time reconstruction of events on the doomed flight that manages to encapsulate all the anxieties and sorrows of our age.
08/10/07
I can say that United 93 has been done well -- with intelligence, compassion, efficiency -- and yet still question whether it was worth doing.
07/25/07
The best filmmaking brings flesh to bone and there are few dancing skeletons that could use more humanity than 9/11.
06/28/07
Amazingly detailed in its narrative cohesion and editing, United 93 is a noble tribute to the tragedy of 9/11.
02/07/07
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01/20/07
Greengrass recreates the attacks on the World Trade Center utilizing existing news footage and it still retains the horror of that day. Despite knowing the ultimate outcome of this film, UNITED 93 is a harrowing and important film.
01/12/07
Unlike 'World Trade Center,' this harrowing chronicle has scarcely a hint of Hollywood. ...'United 93'... thrusts itself into the heart of the action, whether you're ready to go there or not.
12/28/06
Greengrass takes pains to keep events believable and relatively unrhetorical, rejecting entertainment for the sake of sober reflection, though one has to ask how edifying this is apart from its reduction of the standard myths.
12/26/06
Top Critic
...a story about the resolve of a group of strangers that banded together in the most difficult of times to do what they knew in their hearts was right.
12/13/06
In a way, the film is a memorial. It honors the passengers who fought back by visualizing their experience and imprinting it on our screens for years to come.
11/10/06
Un tenso y atrapante relato que imagina, con un realismo casi documental, lo que pudo haber sucedido a bordo del fatídico vuelo.
11/07/06
Impossible to recommend as a great Friday night out, yet agonisingly vital as thought-urging cinema.
11/04/06
Greengrass se limita a observar, y nos entrega por completo a los espectadores la responsabilidad de alcanzar conclusiones.
10/05/06
United 93 terrifyingly conveys the nature of the threat facing the world today and poignantly conveys onscreen the decision by a few brave individuals to fight back.
09/28/06
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