The only bad reviews seem to be from people who just didn't think the movie should have been made in the first place. In another one, the guy was some conspiracy theory wacko talking about how there were no bodies found and that some airplane mechanic saw a plane with United 93's tail number at an airport in 2003.
Passenger 57 is much better if you like Wesley Snipes. Turbulence is another movie, not as good, but Lauren Holly is kinda hot in it.
Just got back from seeing it and thought it was very well done. I honestly believe it was not over-dramatized like I really thought it would be. Seemed almost like a documentary although you know there had to be a few guesses about what actually happened. Also thought it was interesting that this was the first movie I have ever seen with no trailers prior to the movie. Did they mess up or was it that for everyone?
Just got back from seeing it and it was a great movie. Over than playing some omnious music its not over dramatized but they don't need to since there's plenty of tension in it already knowing what happens. What I thought was really amazing about it was how they just go through documenting the matter of fact events leading up to the hijacking. Showing the passengers sitting around the terminal waiting to board the plane, the pilots pre-flight check, them waiting on the tarmac for the plane to take off and even the safety presentation. Just showing the ordinariness of it just makes it more dramatic. Set against these scenes are the scenes of the FAA, regional control and the regional NORAD headquarters all scrambling around trying to figure out what is going on as planes veer off course and they lose communication. It really gives you a good sense of the confusion that was going on that day. The part where the passengers decide to take action was simply amazing and IMO should be standard viewing for anyone training to deal with disasters or just extremely stressful situation. Just showing how a few key passengers start to deal with the situation gives a great sense of how a group of strangers can rapidly figure out how to work together under a crisis situation to address a problem without falling to piece. As for any political slant or bias to the movie I didn't feel any and think they got it just right. There's nothing that I felt seemed jingoistic or critical of the US. The hijackers were portrayed with some depth and they were the only characters that had any sort of character development. While I didn't feel sympathetic towards them or their cause you get some feel that these guys aren't killing machines but humans dealing with the situation just like the passengers. As for the FAA and military personel I also got the sense that these were extremely competent people dealing with a totally confusing situation that they had never imagined. The only criticism I have of the movie was that most of it is shot using hand held cameras that aren't steady cams and there were a few times I felt like I was going to puke as the camera is jiggling around and moving while focussed on the FAA computer screens. I understand that the director wanted to make it more tense by using handheld cameras to convey the confusion but its really hard to watch a computer diagramatic display while the camera keeps moving and cutting. Other than that I thought it was a great movie. One thing to be careful about even though they shoot it almost documentary like the hijacking scene is pretty intense and at the theatre I was at a few people walked out during that.
At the theatre I saw it at they showed some trailers including the one for The Breakup with Jennifer Anniston and Vince Vaughn. Talk about a trailer that didn't fit since this movie was about as far as you can get from a romantic comedy. Although I have to say that Jennifer Anniston looks smoking in the trailer.
This movie was hard for me to watch. That being said, it was very well done. It was shot documentary style by Paul Greengrass (Bourne Identity) and it felt like a documentary. They couldn't have done a better job with this story IMO, it was a very good film. I recomend it to everyone.
Same here, we got to the movie at 10:30 (the time it was supposed to start), expecting to see some previews etc but the actual movie was already starting
Just came back from watching the movie. I won't go as far as Sishir has in calling it "great" , but it was well-done for the most part. Compared to the mostly crap playing in a theater near you, probably money well-spent.
Has anyone seen the Flight 93 movie that's running on A&E Network? I spotted (I think) Barusz from last season's 24 as one of the Terrorists aboard....
I went to he AMC Studio 30 and there were no previews. I missed the firsts 5 minutes standing in line for food....
I just watched this again with a bunch of friends...I was the only one who had seen it before and by no means did a second viewing make it any less impressive. A great tribute to the passengers on that flight.
I couldn't agree more- HBO was running the movie and I happened to watch it on HBOHD from start to finish. If you don't get tear-jearked at the end of the movie than you aren't an American- what those people did that day took an enormous amount of courage and strength.
I watched it on HBO too. Very rarely does Hollywood get things like this right, but they really seemed to have nailed it this time. 5 stars.
I've seen that it's been on cable but I keep missing it. I better DVR it because I'll have to prepare myself mentally and emotionally to watch it.
Ditto...To be honest, I didn't think I'd ever want to watch a 9/11 movie anytime soon and this was a great movie...I had tears coming down when the passengers were saying there goodbye's before it crashed...How does this compare to the other movie...
