student review

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2019)

The film United 93, a historical thriller, was released in 2006 and was directed by Paul Greengrass. The film revolves around the hijackings that went on during 9/11. It focuses on the flight United 93 and the events that went on during the situation. I would give this film an 8/10 because the intensity of the movie kept me interested but it looked kind of messy.
To begin with I will talk about the editing of the movie. During the last scenes the camera keeps flipping back to the passengers in the plane and the hijackers flying the plane. The impact that this has is that it increases the suspense. Even though i knew what was going to happen there was a part of me that wanted to believe that the passengers would be able to take back the plane during this part of the movie.
Another thing I noticed about the movie was the cinematography. To add more to the intensity of the movie the camera was very shaky. The camera just going from one person to another made me feel distressed like the people in the movie. For example when they began calling people to confirm that the hijacks were real the camera just kept shaking. I thought that it was a really cool way to show how the people in the movie were stressed but it gave me a headache.
To conclude the film United 93 showed us what happened during the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Overall it was a good movie because it would make me wonder what was going to happen next throughout the movie. The editing and the cinematography made the movie show accurate representations of the event I would recommend this film to people that like movies that give you suspence.