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United 93 (2006)

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Reviews Counted:200

Fresh:181

Rotten:19

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.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language, and some intense sequences of terror and violence

Runtime: 2 hr. 1 min.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama

Theatrical Release: Apr 28, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $31.5M

Synopsis: This is the story of the takeoff and hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 by terrorists, the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other... This is the story of the takeoff and hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 by terrorists, the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other hijacked planes had been steered into the World Trade Center towers, and the realization that their plane was being steered toward Washington D.C. [More]

Starring: David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson

Starring: David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson, Khalid Abdalla, Lewis Alsamari, Ben Sliney, Major James Fox, Gregg Henry, Omar Berdouni, Denny Dillon, Peter Hermann, Marceline Hugot, Joe Jamrog, Peter Marinker, Jodie Lynne McClintock, Libby Morris, Tom O'Rourke, David Rasche, Michael J. Reynolds, John Rothman, Chip Zien, Leigh Zimmerman, Simon Poland, Rebecca Schull, Tara Hugo, Erich Redman, Lorna Dallas, Corey Johnson, Polly Adams, Nancy McDoniel, Starla Benford, Becky London, Opal Alladin, Kate Jennings Grant, Liza Colon-Zayas, Olivia Thirlby, Chloe Sirene, Daniel Sauli, Cheyenne Jackson, Gary Commock, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Trish Gates, Masato Kamo, Jamie Harding, J.J. Johnson, April Telek

Director: Paul Greengrass

Director: Paul Greengrass
Screenwriter: Paul Greengrass
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lloyd Levin
Distributor: Universal Pictures

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REVIEWS FOR UNITED 93

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Full Review Source: Movies.com | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Dave White
Dave White
Movies.com

A black hole

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment 5 Comments
Aug 30, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
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Apr 29, 2009
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
N/R

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Full Review Source: NPR.org | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
NPR.org
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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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Feb 28, 2008
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
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N/R

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Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
Nov 1, 2007
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek
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a real-time reconstruction of events on the doomed flight that manages to encapsulate all the anxieties and sorrows of our age.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
Aug 10, 2007
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

I can say that United 93 has been done well -- with intelligence, compassion, efficiency -- and yet still question whether it was worth doing.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
Jul 25, 2007
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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Jul 14, 2007
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

A supreme achievement.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
Mar 1, 2007
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

Amazingly detailed in its narrative cohesion and editing, United 93 is a noble tribute to the tragedy of 9/11.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
Feb 7, 2007
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
Jan 20, 2007
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
Jan 12, 2007
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews

Cinema verite at its very best!

Full Review Source: AALBC.com | comment Comment
Jan 4, 2007
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
AALBC.com

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.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
Dec 28, 2006
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
Dec 26, 2006
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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...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.

Full Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review | comment Comment
Dec 13, 2006
Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review

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.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
Nov 10, 2006
Peter T. Chattaway
Peter T. Chattaway
Christianity Today

Un tenso y atrapante relato que imagina, con un realismo casi documental, lo que pudo haber sucedido a bordo del fatídico vuelo.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
Nov 7, 2006
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

Impossible to recommend as a great Friday night out, yet agonisingly vital as thought-urging cinema.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
Nov 4, 2006
Dan Jolin
Dan Jolin
Empire Magazine
 
 
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