Moments in the air

Rating: 9/10 (8 September 2009)

The courage of man...on that dreadful day.That day is September 11, 2001.United 93 is getting ready for liftoff in New York.There are forty-five passengers waiting.And three of them are hijackers And then...the takeoff.The air traffic controllers hear there has been a plane hijacked, maybe more.Then, moments later, two of those planes crash into World Trade Center.And later Pentagon is hit.But United 93 doesn't hit any building, because the passengers decide to fight.The plane crashes in Shanksville, near Pennsylvania.Paul Greengrass did a very fine job with United 93 (2006).The cast is mostly unknown, but very good.Christian Clemenson belongs to the more known names.He plays one heroic passenger called Thomas E. Burnett Jr.Cheyenne Jackson plays Mark Bingham.J.J. Johnson plays Captain Jason Dahl.Gary Commock is First Officer LeRoy Homer.Polly Adams plays Deborah Wells.Opal Alladin is CeeCee Lyles.Trish Gates is Sandra Bradshaw.Chip Zien plays Mark Rothenberg.Khalid Abdallah plays Ziad Jarrah.Lewis Alsamari plays Saeed al-Khamdi.Omar Berdouni portrays Ahmed al-Haznavi and Jamie Harding is Ahmed al-Nami.FAA operations manager Ben Sliney plays himself.We all know what impact the WTC attacks had to the world.The war on terror is happening as I'm writing this.A few movies have been made of those events on 9/11, and this must be the best one.Those moments people had in the air, become so real in this movie.It's all so intense, as if you're living those moments there with them.And you wish you win those bastards, and the plane doesn't crash.