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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★

  Almost everyone is aware of how this film is supposed to end but what director Paul Greengrass does in between the opening & closing credits here is what makes United 93 a truly devastating & unforgettable ride. Featuring a lesser-known cast who provide a sense of credibility to its drama and shot like a first-hand documentary, the film is crafted with great eye for detail and recounts the horrifying event that shook America & the entire world with unflinching accuracy.

  United 93 is the story about the 4th hijacked plane on the doomed September 11 morning and which was the only flight that failed to reach its intended target. After collecting detailed accounts from the victims' families, the cast & crew here attempt to…

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  Review by Milez Das (Rohit Shivdas) ★★★★★ 4

  I just can't write a review for this film.

  What a tragic day to the world and America who lost so many people to the craziness of some hateful people.

  Literally I have goosebumps on my whole body. I am crying, I don't know what to say. I just want to salute the people who died in the flight United 93.

  Paul Greengrass you deserve a standing ovation for making this devastating film with such great integrity.

  I offer my condolences to all those families who lost their loved one on this tragic day.

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  Review by the film drunk ★★★★½ 7

  Incredible movie, never want to see it again

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  Review by Matthew Buchanan ★★★★★

  Ruthlessly economical filmmaking that so effectively illustrates just how unexpected and unfathomable the events of 9/11 were for the passengers and ground crews involved.

  Once past the opening hotel-room and boarding-gate scenes, the film never strays beyond the walls of the hijacked aircraft or the military and civilian command centres that responded. Director Greengrass provides no explanation — other than perhaps nerves — for the hijackers’ delayed gambit on board, and deliberately downplays most of the day’s iconic imagery: the towers are only glimpsed briefly through a window, the first impact occurs off-screen, and the film cuts to a television monitor moments prior to the second.

  The palpable sense of bewilderment and confusion among the ground staff is heightened by…

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  Review by Florin Scanlon ★★★★★ 10

  I'm a foreigner. When I first saw this movie about 5 years ago I didn't know too much about the 9/11 attacks. I only knew the twin towers got hit, but I knew nothing about the Pentagon or the United 93 flight. So when I sat down and watched this movie I didn't know what it was about, just that it was based on a true story. Imagine the shock I experienced during the last few seconds of the movie. I was paralyzed. Rewatching it now, aware of what happened on that horrible day, it felt very similar to my first watch. It's still an effective movie, even knowing beforehand what is going to happen and that is not easy…

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★½ 18

  History is the most important cornerstone of society. Not a single moment of our choices, our culture, our entire lives isn't determined by what came before. Anyone ignorant of history is ignorant of far greater things. There is not a single cultural work - a film, a song, a painting - that cannot be examined historically. They can all be examined by what cultural and social history proceeded them, and also by how history has subsequently judged them. Most films pretend to ignore history, but even the shallowest of them - superhero movies, horror b-movies, style-over-substance arthouse pictures - are indicative of the culture around them. To judge films in a vacuum is to ignore their most meaningful purpose: the…

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  Review by MrPPeeps ★★★

  Week 48 of the 52 week film challenge: This week is a film that takes place in an enclosed space. All current participants you will find in my list | 52 week film challenge |

  Obviously an interesting, important and harrowing subject, that's thankfully handled in a respectful manner by everyone involved. However, I just did not love the docudrama style in which it was presented, and I'd have preferred more scenes in the air over those on the ground.

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  Review by Matthew Christman ★★★½ 1

  One question dogged United 93 when it came out that led to a number of critics underrating it initially. No one could deny the intense, visceral power of Paul Greengrass's film, the queasy realism and punch-to-the-gut human drama of it, but considering the fact that the movie tends to leave one feeling gutted, drained and wrung out like a soggy gym sock, the question that wasn't immediately answered was: WHY? Yes, the film is a documentary-style recreation of what is believed to have happened on United Flight 93 on September 11th, but really, what's the point of making a movie like that? Why pick at the scabby wound of 9-11 in the interest of a technical experiment. Why put the…

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★★★

  One of the most intense, gut-wrenching, and heart-pumping cinematic works in recent memory, United 93 represents writer/director Paul Greengrass at his best, resulting in a chilling and wholly engrossing depiction of a real-life tragedy.

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  Review by Prateek Sharma ★★★★ 3

  With a good screenplay, absolutely brilliant score (specially at end), good directing, great camera movements and that emotional ending which we all can predict, this film deserves more love. The movie tells all about the fate of United Airlines Flight 93 during 9/11. Very provocative, so probably not a good watch for entertainment. But worth the watch!

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  Review by Blaze the Action Junkie ★★★★

  I, like most Americans my age or older, can't help but to have particularly poignant emotions regarding this day and these events. The story of this flight is particularly heart-wrenching. Having lived through the day when planes fell from the sky, seeing these things unfold on live television, these true stories involving these fateful events are to me some of the toughest watches in my collection. This movie comes highly suggested by me for everyone regardless of how familiar you are with these events. I won't claim that this is a masterpiece of cinema, but it is a chilling tale of real people in an impossible situation. The names of those people are listed below in my personal dedication to…

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  Review by theironcupcake 8

  The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 means something different for everyone who was in the city that day and remembers exactly where they were, who they talked to, how they felt.

  There are three memories that always spring to my mind:

  1. My family and I went on our first-ever vacation in August 2001, spending a few days at a lakeside motel in the Adirondacks. We took a Greyhound bus upstate and returned to NYC on an Amtrak. On our way back to Brooklyn, we took a taxi through Manhattan, and for whatever reason, I remember looking up through the rear window at the Twin Towers. Maybe it meant something different to me to see them after having briefly left home,…