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24chevyfan

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Much like World trade center, this is an amazing movie. It very well portrayed the people on board flight 93.

Go Buy or Rent it!

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Posted aug 15, 2008 9:38 am pt

FilipHolm

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United 93 is the story of the only plane on 9/11 that didn´t reach it´s target. About the passengers on a plane who fought the terrorists. As everybody knows it is based on a true story and it is intressting and original...
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United 93 is the story of the only plane on 9/11 that didn´t reach it´s target. About the passengers on a plane who fought the terrorists. As everybody knows it is based on a true story and it is intressting and original not to focus the story on the World Trade Center itself, but on that one plane. The directing is great, and the writing even better. The acting is at times briliant and you realy feel for the characters. United 93 is a shocking movie which you will think about for a couple of days after watching it. It is the best movie about 9/11 and allso one of the best movies of this decade so far.

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Posted dec 14, 2007 7:43 pm pt

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This is a good one because it gives an insight of how those people in the plane of 9/11 felt. It is a really emotional one ad hard one as well....

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Posted jun 2, 2007 4:30 pm pt

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Beautiful and a great dedication film but it could have been better. 9/11 is the worst modern traderdy in the USA and possible all of the Western World. Everyone knows what happened but not many people know all the deep data. There are many movies...
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Beautiful and a great dedication film but it could have been better. 9/11 is the worst modern traderdy in the USA and possible all of the Western World. Everyone knows what happened but not many people know all the deep data. There are many movies on 9/11. There are hundreds of docos, quite a few normal acting movies which are about the FBI and what happened and the deep data but they are all crap. Then there a couple films like this which are realistic movies of what happened. United 93 is explained in the name and the entire movie revolves around the United 93 hyjacking as well as several head aircraft control centres. As I said before, it could have been better with:
-A little bit more information on the other 3 hyjackings.
-Special effects/realistic animaton which shows the aircraft from the outside and its current location and as it moves.
-After its crash, flashes of the wreck being found and emotions on the peoples faces who find it. Possible also short flashes of a memorial?
-More writing at the end and mentioning how the people on fligh 93 were heroes.

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Posted may 18, 2007 9:11 pm pt

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Unmissable. The 2nd best movie of the year, behind Prestige. So much tension, jaw-dropping cinematography (how did they do all that on a plane?!), very heartwrenching and better yet on how realistic everything is set out to be. Greengrass has...
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Unmissable. The 2nd best movie of the year, behind Prestige. So much tension, jaw-dropping cinematography (how did they do all that on a plane?!), very heartwrenching and better yet on how realistic everything is set out to be. Greengrass has another winner on his hands.

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Posted feb 8, 2007 2:46 pm pt

Samuka

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Great movie. I'm not an american, but i became sad by watching this movie and, at the same time, amazed by its reality. I thought it would just be another silly american movie designed to show their tragedies and the way they always deal fine with...
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Great movie. I'm not an american, but i became sad by watching this movie and, at the same time, amazed by its reality. I thought it would just be another silly american movie designed to show their tragedies and the way they always deal fine with it. But I was really thrilled watching it and I truly recommend it to everyone.

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Posted feb 7, 2007 12:56 pm pt

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This is the story of a plane which didnt struck its target. This is a great movie. Its about all the passengers in the plane who try to save themselves. A great drama movie. With some touching scenes too.

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Posted jan 28, 2007 6:43 pm pt

martinha85

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Someone told me it was a good movie... I hated it. The impact they wanted to achieve didn't work and the film was boring, people already knew the plane wasn't going to crash. I don't recommend to see this movie, but some people might find it...
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Someone told me it was a good movie... I hated it. The impact they wanted to achieve didn't work and the film was boring, people already knew the plane wasn't going to crash. I don't recommend to see this movie, but some people might find it interesting. I don't.

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Posted jan 27, 2007 7:19 am pt

NoOneIsAlone

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One of the best movies concering the September 11, attacks. Unlike all other films, this movie concentrates of the plane that did not impact to its objective. The trama and the drama is so well done in this movie, I was surprised, and I felt kind...
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One of the best movies concering the September 11, attacks. Unlike all other films, this movie concentrates of the plane that did not impact to its objective. The trama and the drama is so well done in this movie, I was surprised, and I felt kind of sad in the movie. Poor people, but of course this movie is going to be consider a classic, eventually.

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Posted jan 24, 2007 6:49 am pt

MistaC87

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Deserves so much more than 5 stars. This film leaves an unforgetable impact.

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Posted jan 22, 2007 9:23 am pt

• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  100
  Greengrass has made not only a thoroughly fact-checked film but a film that uncontrovertibly comes from the heart.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  100
  Greengrass's movie is tightly wrapped, minutely drawn, and, no matter how frightening, superbly precise.

  by David Denby | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  100
  United 93 is powerful not only in the way it provides hope through the actions of a few unlikely heroes, but in its ability to take us back through time to a day many of us would prefer not to remember, but will never forget.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  100
  An unflinching, powerfully visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard one of the terrorist-commandeered flights on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  100
  May be the most wrenching, profound and perfectly made movie nobody wants to see.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  100
  It is the highest compliment I can pay Greengrass to say that he is a master of the mundane, the routine and the everyday.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  100
  Far from being exploitive, the effect is inspiring: This is the best of us.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  100
  Brilliant, tightly focused, and momentous.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  100
  The controversial film that is unbearable--and unmissable.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  100
  What United 93 demonstrates, as if we needed proof, is that it is too soon - it may always be too soon - to sort out the feelings from that day.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
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  Quite remarkably, though, its clear-eyed view of an unprecedented American tragedy leaves us with emotions that audiences of those earlier days would readily recognize -- love of country, bottomless grief, an appreciation of life's preciousness and fragility. A film that can do this and also teach is to be cherished. And seen. It's time.

  by Joe Morgenstern | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  You're unlikely to come across a more powerful film this year.

  by Pete Vonder Haar | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  100
  The superb United 93, from the British writer-director Paul Greengrass, does not waste time defining the undefinable. Nor does it strain for poetry when, with this story, prose is enough.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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  It's Greengrass' way of asking a question that looms large in these post-9/11 days: Are we all praying to the same God, or is one man's God better than another, and one man's God vastly more terrifying?

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »