Best film of 2006

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2006)

"United 93" is, as of mid-year, the best film of 2006. Powerful, wrenching, it puts the viewer right into the airplane and makes you feel that you're one of the passengers on the flight.
Great casting and, if you've read the book "Among The Heroes" you will note that most of the actors look very much like the people they're portraying even though none of the people on the plane are identified by name except the captain and co-pilot.
Terrific pacing for the movie and, at least from the moment the plane is hijacked and until the crash, the movie is shot in real-time. The passengers had precious little time to determine what was going on and to devise a counterattack. You know of course that they're going to fail and the passengers certainly knew that the likelihood that they could take over the plane and fly it themselves was almost non-existent. But they were determined that if they were to die they weren't going to allow the plane to hurt anyone else. They died fighting and representing the greatest values of our country---self-sacrifice, teamwork, faith in God and iron courage.