UNITED 93 - in one word...

[DjfunkmasterG]

POWERFUL, EMOTIONAL, EXCITING... Pick one.

This has got to be one of the best films I have watched in a long time. Although the events can be skeptical, the essence of that fateful day in the US was abundant and eerily portrayed through celluloid.

This has got to be one of the most adrenaline rushing films I have ever watched and I was grasped from start to finish. Even though we know the outcome I was cheering for them to hopefully pull out of it, however, the sheer bravery of the passengers alone is worth the watch of this fantastic film.

[Chakobsa]

I watched the made for tv(?) "Flight 93" and that was fairly powerful stuff.
How does this compare?

[Debbieangel]

I agree Dj ...it told the real story without sentiment!
I watched the special features and families liked the way it was done and they felt their loved ones were portrayed how they truly were as people not as "Hollywood" might do it.
It's a good movie to watch to get what happened on Flight 93 on 9/11!

[DjfunkmasterG]

I watched the made for tv(?) "Flight 93" and that was fairly powerful stuff.
How does this compare?

Never watched flight 93 on TV. I watched only UNITED 93, and as far as i am concerned it is the only film anyone needs to watch because it covers everything that happened on 9/11, but the main focus is UNITED 93

[MinionZombie]

My thoughts on the film:

Wow ... it's an incredible piece of filmmaking to say the least. Very respectful, but also completely non-sensationalist. Even the famous "let's roll" is muddled in with a stream of other sentences.

It's incredibly tough viewing though, after the 60 minute mark you're completely sucked in after a slow build up to hammer home the fact (without being over-handed, it's all very observational/documentary style) that 9/11 was any other exceptionally ordinary day until everything changed. So after the everyday start, which grows increasingly worse as the chaos grows (the audience fully aware of the whole meaning, but those within the film obviously finding everything out for the first time in panic), the film becomes almost unbearable to watch, it really sucks it out of you.

I was sat there watching it on my computer, in my chair hunched forward almost the entire time, watched it from start to finish with no pauses for toilet breaks or snacks or anything like normal. By the final section of the film when the passengers are organising their counter-attack my hands were sweating profusely as I had them clenched together like you're holding on for dear life, because knowing all too well what happened that day it's utterly intense/bizarre/harrowing to see what it might have been like inside that one plane.

When the first of the four terrorists is jumped by the group I actually leaped in my chair and grunted "f*cking kill him!" because I was so involved, so on edge. Needless to say these final moments of the film - which of course were the final moments of all those lives on that plane - cannot be expressed in words, looking out through the cockpit window as the battle inside the cockpit ensues is utterly heartbreaking.

Afterwards I can only describe the feeling as shellshock.

If you guys haven't seen this film, I suggest you do, but be prepared for some very tough viewing.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Damn straight. I get chills just thinking about that scene. This was without a doubt one of the best pieces of cinema ever done. It was so riveting, so emotional. I cannot get my mind off the film and I finished watching it at 8:00 last night.

You know a film is really good when it sticks with you 12 hours later. Just thinking of that scene of the plane hurdling towards the ground while they continued to fight to gain control of the plain was sad, and moving. Cause you know no matter what they did... they were doomed.

However, this film showed the herosim of a few people willing to fight for there survival, and did a good goddamn job of it.

10 out of 10