Flight 93 (2006)

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I have viewed Flight 93 a number of times and even though it may be a 'downer' it portrayed a real event effectively and with dignity. It may have been a low budgeted TV film, yet the film makers, actors and crew spent their resources and talents very well. Also, notable mentioned should be given to the music composer Velton Ray Bunch. What a simple yet powerful score! The background vocals and instrumentation evoked sympathy for the pain felt by the passengers, families, the Verizon employees and the movie viewer. Flight 93 illustrates how less can be more. This movie was truly a powerful and memorable experience. Try to view Flight 93 on its own merit and not in comparison with other films on the same subject and you may appreciate it more for its real value.

I watched this on 'More4' on Friday 2009-09-04, thinking that it was the work of Paul Greengrass, the genius behind 'Bloody Sunday'. One hundred and ten tedious minutes later, I thought 'he's lost it'. I didn't realise that I was confusing 'Flight 93' with 'United 93' which I've just finished watching on 'ITV1' on Sunday 2009-09-06.(Why did I include a spoiler alert? Well, I am assuming that in a few years' time, there will be visitors to this site who will not have heard about what happened in the USA on 2001-09-11 or, at the very least, will not remember what was special about United Airlines flight 93. For those future generations wanting an idea about what happened that day, stay away from this patronising slush.) A hijacked airliner in itself makes for an interesting story, but the makers of this tat appear to have assumed that everyone watching was fully aware of the context and the ultimately fatal crashes of this plane and three others. Instead, it chose to focus on several conversations between the passengers in the air and their beautiful wives and parents at home in their beautiful houses. For an hour and a half, sweet syrupy goo oozed from the screen. 'Look!' say the film-makers, 'these nasty men killed beautiful loving American people.' What idiot script-writer feels the need to point out that most people are nice, and have others around them whom they love and who love them back? This insults the viewer, and what's worse, insults the memory of real people who died in that crash.

Think about this sentence next time you watch it this shitty movie you'll lol forever.Enough with the god damn babies and unsubtle and shameless appeal to emotion. It's disgusting.First time it starts off as hatred for the terrorists.Second time it's disapproval of the direction style. Third time it's hatred for writers and directors. Fourth time you end up hating Hollywood.By the 15th time you've already signed up for al qaeda and your on your way to a flag burning.I really have nothing more to say but I'm going to type this because IMDb has this weird 10 line minimum so here goes.Religion {all major ones) have caused the large large majority of wars and hatred thought history.Christianity, Islam, Judaism are the most destructive organization of people in the history of man kind.

Flight 93 (2006) *** 1/2 (out of 4) A&E produced TV flick beat United 93 to be the first film to take on the subject but I'm really not sure which went into production first but I have to wonder how one company didn't sue the other. Both film (of course) take on the same subject but I was a little shocked at how close both screenplays were in the way the story was presented. The camera work was pretty much the same and both films center on certain aspects of the story and some of the scenes seem to have been filmed the same way. With that out of the way, I think this story is one of the greatest to ever deal with a group of heroes and I think you'd have to be unhuman for the story to grab you. This film does a very good job at telling the story even though it never reaches the brilliant level of United 93. This film here goes for more of an emotional punch as a lot of the film centers on the passengers calling home to their loved ones. One of the most emotional scenes is where one of the passengers comes to peace with the fact that he's going to die so he might as well try and save others on the ground. The performances are all very good, although some of the folks playing the family members go a little over the top.