Great Film

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2006)

Pretty good crowd for a matinée. There were around 50 people there.
I'll just say right off the bat that no one was crying or freaking out, or anything else that some who are against this film were "concerned" about. And, there were adults of all ages from early 20's up to 60+.
This movie is rated R, but with the exception of language, I have seen worse violence in a PG-13 movie.
I saw the A&E movie about Flight 93, and this one is much more believable. The A&E movie was very well organized, and focused on the passengers and their families on the ground. And, the passengers in the A&E movie were far too calm, and their conversations seemed scripted. In this new movie, it seemed more real. Everyone talking at once with a major sense of urgency. Same with the terrorists. It blended the agencies on the ground, and showed the result of different agencies not being able to share information. There is also no "star and co-star" There weren't any single stars on 9/11 either. In fact, I don't recall hearing ANY names of the characters, other than one woman who identified herself to the person she was calling on the phone.
I'm not going to say how the World Trade Center and Pentagon were done, but I will say that it is done tastefully. The whole movie is tasteful, and there are no over glorified Rambo type fight scenes. It is all done realistically.
Some scenes are very intense in the fact that it is based on a true story, and in some scenes, I wanted to jump up and help. It does remind you that we are at war, and shows you that our enemies are brutal, and do not care about who they kill.
I recommend this movie to everyone. I simply do not buy the notion that it is too soon for a movie like this, and I think that people who are against this film should simply be honest, and say that they don't want to see it. Proceeds from the film are being donated to a memorial at the site of the crash, and if my matinée viewing is any indication of how the movie will do, I'd bet that there will be a VERY nice memorial.