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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.
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... [More]
Starring: David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson
Director: Paul Greengrass
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REVIEWS FOR UNITED 93
A black hole
Aug 30, 2009
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Apr 29, 2009
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Oct 18, 2008
Top CriticThis is not a film you go to for enjoyment, but because you have a duty to endure it.
Feb 28, 2008
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Nov 1, 2007
Top Critica real-time reconstruction of events on the doomed flight that manages to encapsulate all the anxieties and sorrows of our age.
Aug 10, 2007
I can say that United 93 has been done well -- with intelligence, compassion, efficiency -- and yet still question whether it was worth doing.
Jul 25, 2007
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Jul 14, 2007
A supreme achievement.
Mar 1, 2007
Amazingly detailed in its narrative cohesion and editing, United 93 is a noble tribute to the tragedy of 9/11.
Feb 7, 2007
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Jan 20, 2007
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.
Jan 12, 2007
Cinema verite at its very best!
Jan 4, 2007
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.
Dec 28, 2006
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.
Dec 26, 2006
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.
Dec 13, 2006
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.
Nov 10, 2006
Un tenso y atrapante relato que imagina, con un realismo casi documental, lo que pudo haber sucedido a bordo del fatídico vuelo.
Nov 7, 2006
Impossible to recommend as a great Friday night out, yet agonisingly vital as thought-urging cinema.
Nov 4, 2006
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