A film about one of the greatest tragedies in the history of airline industry

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2009)

United 93 is an excellent film about the crash of United Airlines flight 93.The unique thing about this film is that through its making the subtle lines between reality and fiction appear to have blurred. A viewer experiences the sensation of seeing the tragedy happen right before his/her eyes.United 93 is not a documentary film and cannot even be termed as a feature film.This is the reason why the narrative approach chosen by Paul Greengrass does not contain any components of these two genres of cinema.What we are able to see in this film is an accurate recollection in real time of the events that took place on that fateful day.By involving the relatives of the victims,this film's director Paul Greengrass has made a good attempt to be as close as possible to the reality.It can be surmised that they must have provided vital information about the mental state of their loved ones when they were stuck in that unlucky airplane.This is a film to watch as the inevitable tension has firm grip on viewers from the start right until the end of the film.