Greengrass takes pains to keep events believable and relatively unrhetorical, rejecting entertainment for the sake of sober reflection, though one has to ask how edifying this is apart from its reduction of the standard myths.
United 93
September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.
2006 · 1h 51m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Directed by
Paul Greengrass
Overview
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Director and cast
- Paul Greengrass Director
- J.J. Johnson as Captain Jason Dahl
- Gary Commock as First Officer LeRoy Homer
- Polly Adams as Deborah Welsh
- Opal Alladin as CeeCee Lyles
- Starla Benford as Wanda Anita Green
- Trish Gates as Sandra Bradshaw
- Nancy McDoniel as Lorraine G. Bay
- David Alan Basche as Todd Beamer
- Richard Bekins Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
This limitation in source material has had a peculiar effect on the script. Never is there a moment of repulsive sentimentality or exploitation, but neither is Greengrass able to realize an ultimate purpose.
Even the undeniable heroism of the passengers on United 93 doesn't edify as it should.
... this is a picture we all must see.
... left me feeling curiously unmoved and even slightly resentful.
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