Does It Age Well?

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2014)

A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Roger Ebert, Michael Medved, Peter Travers, and James Berardinelli all awarded the film four stars. It was termed "one of the most moving films of the year" by Travers in Rolling Stone magazine. The film has even been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters, who presented it as his annual selection within the 2010 Maryland Film Festival.
Waters citing it as recently as 2010 is impressive, as I wonder if this film ages well. In 2006, the events of 2001 were still fresh in the minds of us all. But today (2014), unless we lived on the east coast, the tragedy is fading and Todd Beamer may not be a household name anymore. The film, as powerful and important as it is, might be wearing in time...