Brilliant documentary

Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2006)

United 93 is a gripping, dramatic tear-jerker - all the more so because it is completely true. As my movie companion said upon exiting "There is absolutely nothing Hollywood about it." I couldn't have said it better myself. This should be a lesson to Michael Moore on how to construct a brilliant documentary. Whereas Moore's works are essentially propaganda films for the wacko left, this movie presents the facts as they happened - with no narration, no extraneous back-story, and no sledgehammer commentary. When watching United 93, the viewer has no idea of the political views of the director (he is a liberal). That is the way it should always be, and never is in Moore's propaganda films. This director's use of the many of the original participants in re-creating the scene of 9-11 makes it all the more real. The use of the hand-held camera adds an air of real-time drama. All in all, this will probably be the penultimate story of what really happened on 9-11. Every American who sees it cannot help but remember where they were on that terrible day. 9-11 is, after all, the Kennedy assassination of our generation.