UNITED 93 FReeper Reviews

self | April 28, 2006 | RobFromGa

[RobFromGa]

Just saw United 93-- I thought it was excellent. It evolves in real-time and its cuts back and forth between the Air Traffic controllers, the Military room, and the plane.

It was somewhat shocking to watch the level of confusion in terms of what was going on, but when you see what information that they were dealing with, it makes sense.

The hijackers to me came across more as fanatical than evil, and they were not turban-wearing obvious characters, they were cleaned up and I ride on planes with people like them on every flight I take.

In the movie, they are carrying out the plans of others and are obsessive in their task. We are not fighting an enemy that is likely to be reasoned with.

There is one character that I'm glad they included- he has a European *maybe French* accent and he makes a number of comments along the lines of "If we do what they say, they'll spare our lives"-- typical appeasement mentality.

Thanks to this group of heroes, many thousands of lives may have been spared and we kept the Islamic nuts from claiming the Capitol or White House as a prize.

I give in 9.5/10!

[zlala]

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[RobFromGa]

Crross-linking with this thread about the President and First Lady watching United 93 with family member of the heroes on the flight:

I'm having lunch w/ President and First Lady on Tuesday!
by Freeper chris_in_nj

[RobFromGa]

Cross-linking with this thread about a commercial pilot's thoughts on United 93:

"Flight 93" - Comments by Commercial Pilot Who Flew on 9/11
by Freeper genefromjersey

[FriendDownUnder]

The primary emotion I felt was anger. After the brutal murders of the Pilot, co-pilot, the flight attendant and the passengers, you get caught up in the righteous anger as the brave passengers come up roaring out of their seats to counter-attack the terrorists.

Couldn't agree with you more. I was concerned I'd cry during most of the movie, but as the film unfolded in front of me I just found myself getting more and more angry. As it ended, I had to both choke back the tears and bite back the anger...

A bump as this was just released (shame, Universal. SHAME) in Australia in the past couple of weeks, and the husband (a native New Yorker) and I went to see it this past weekend.

(Hard to believe it's been five years already...)