Unmissable. Best film re-enactment of actual event ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (11 February 2007)

The biggest compliment I can give this film is that it feels like a real-time documentary. And that should be reason enough to see it.
I - like many others - didn't want to see this film at first. Not because I felt the film-makers would be profiting from disaster but I feared that it would be another chest-beating, Hollywood-ised version of events.
It is not.
I am British so have more distance from the events of that day in September 2001 and can judge the film as just that - a film - and not a eulogy for the (very) ordinary people on that plane.
Whatever your politics and your views as to whether the U.S. "had it coming" you still cannot fail to be moved by this film. Despite my objectivity I have never been more emotionally involved in a film. Conversely it is the films very "naturalness" that gets you so involved.
As others have mentioned there is no thunderous music score or hammy patriotic speeches. The conversations and actions seem as natural as possible - although not having been there or any similar life-threatening situation you can only guess at the realism. But it seems to have rung universally true with most of the people who have seen the film judging from this website.
Greengrass is now one of my favourite directors after this and The Bourne Supremacy. I aim to see his film of the "Bloody Sunday" incident that occurred in Ireland in the 1970's as soon as possible.
I want all film re-enactments of actual events to be like this.