Out of the frightening events that occurred on September 11, 2001, this is the most emotional and heroic.

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2006)

"United 93" is the story of love, emotion, and heroism that surrounded the dreaded events of September 11.
Director Paul Greengrass does an incredible job in recreating the events that occurred on that day. His shaky camera operations truly put the audience into the movie, so to speak.
The film starts off with the last prayer of the hijackers of United Airlines flight 93, and then one of its accomplice's saying that "It's time." The passengers file onto the plane without any expectations that they would later die that day. Greengrass and his editors take the audience for a ride that alternates between the situation in the plane and the air traffic control centers dealing with other hijackings at the exact same time.
Director Greengrass has commented that he feels it is time that a film can and should be made surrounding the events that occurred on that day, and I for one believe that he is right. The first step toward peace, in my opinion, is to make sure that this will always be remembered, and that such ghastly things should never even be conceived again.
As for the technicalities of the film, I believe that this film, of those made this year, has an enormous chance at being nominated for Best Director, Best Sound, Best Sound Mixing, Best Picture, and Best Editing at the 2007 Oscars.
Overall, this film combines an incredibly strong sense of realism and emotion as best as can be, and to truly understand how incredible it is, one should experience it for oneself.