Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2006)

Typically, I have steered clear of 9/11 films, though I have viewed a couple of related feature-length productions. "United 93" is actually one of the best films I have seen all this year (2006). This is not a dramatization of 9/11 as much as it is a factual recount. The writing, the performances and the cinematography all place you in the hot seat of NY ATC Command; in chief positions of FAA; in command at NORAD; and in the tense passenger seat of United Flight 93. The experience becomes personal as the events of that day are realistically installed into the looming fate of the last flight to go down on 9/11. There are no frivolous set-ups; no character-building is placed into the story and no personal backgrounds are highlighted. With no peripheral plots, this film is a true look at what did happen.
I anxiously anticipate the next fact-based film by Paul Greengrass.
Joe Dougherty Los Angeles, CA DocORock@comcast.net