A Movie You Can "Feel"

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2006)

I'm going to have to give United 93 4 out of 4 stars.
I saw this movie with about as many people in the theater as there were on the flight itself. It made the movie seem more real than it already was, and believe me, that is VERY real.
I have never (after watching thousands of movies) felt more nervous during a movie than I have tonight. It wasn't special effects or a new type of story with a smart villain that did it. It was the terrifying fact that these people we're real and this story actually happened. I knew what fate awaited these people, but no one knows exactly what happened on board.
As the movie moves along at it's real - time speed, you feel like you are both in the United 93 flight, and in the Air Traffic Control center at the same time. The environment was recreated with intense realism. You learn at the same time as the ATC staff about the hijacked planes and the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The movie was (needless to say) very well researched. Not many movies accomplish such a feat. The director poured unmeasurable effort and care into his film to recreate this horrific event.
This is one of those rare movies with absolutely no humor in it whatsoever. It is irrelevant. Serious movies use humor as "relief", United 93 does not want you to feel relief, it wants you to feel everything the passengers felt as they went through it.
This movie left me speechless after wards and if I wasn't with company (who were also speechless) I probably would have stayed in the theater until they had kicked me out. I "felt" this movie more than I have with any other movie. I wanted to help out those passengers. I wanted to charge at the hijackers, regain control of the plane and show those terrorists why Americans will always defeat them because we believe in our country! I wanted to call my family and tell them that I won't be coming home because I was about to die for the greatest country in the world so that terrorism and the slaughtering of innocent people will not take place. I wanted to fight a war on terrorism.
God Bless America.