United 93 is a powerful and remarkable film

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2006)

There's no way to watch United 93 and not relive the horror of the World Trade Center attacks and the jet that hit the Pentagon.
And there's also no way to watch this extraordinarily powerful film and not be in awe of what human beings are capable of - both good and bad.
The director of " United 93" delivers a wrenching chronicle of an everyday airplane ride that goes frighteningly awry on 9/11/01.
There are the businessmen and women on their cell phones and laptops, idling in the airport waiting area before the flight begins. There are the pilot and copilot making small talk as they run down the cockpit checklist. There are the attendants, glad at the prospect of working an uncrowded flight, trading gossip, checking supplies.
And there are the four young Arab men, first seen in early morning in a hotel room bowing in prayer to Mecca, then going through the airport X-rays and scanners, then taking their seats on the Boeing 757 before committing their act of evil against humanity.
The passengers of this flight fought back against that evil. The fact that they did not survive does not diminished what they accomplished or their bravery.