|
www.post-gazette.com - : ''United 93'' brings it all back: The disbelief, the horror and the sickening feeling that descended on us on Sept. 11, 2001. More importantly, the film draws out such reactions without sensation, sentimentality or jingoism, painting as honest a portrait of the hijacking of Flight 93 as we're ever likely to see. more...
|
|
|
www.dunkirkma.net - : One of the scariest things about terrorism, perhaps the scariest, is that you never know when something horrific is going to happen. Nobody knew a thing the day some masked men stormed a dormitory during the Olympics in ’72 in Munich, killing a slew of Israeli athletes and leading to an airport bloodbath and the dawn of televised terror. Nobody could have possibly known that one day the seemingly quiet Timothy McVeigh would load a van full of home made explosives, park it outside of a government building in Oklahoma City, and murder 150 plus civilians minding their own business on a clear spring morning. And certainly, who in their right mind would have ever predicted that one morning in mid September in 2001, a well organized plot to destroy the very fabric of American culture and financial stability would so flawlessly be executed by a handful of religious zealots who, in turn for sacrificing their bodies, and the innocent lives of over 3,000 unsuspecting souls, fancied themselves “martyrs” for some insane cause that preaches to a higher power of fanaticism and pure ignorant hatred. Nobody could have predicted September 11th, and surely nobody could ever forget where they were when the news first hit, whether you were watching the whole disaster live on morning TV, or heard it through a rapidly frantic grapevine away from any television set, and the most frightening aspect about those events that changed American history, is that they came out of nowhere, like the worst of sucker punches, one minute normalcy, the next complete and utter devastation. more...
|
|
|
www.boxoffice.com - : It is, perhaps, stating the obvious, but ''United 93'' is a difficult film to watch. Some might even say impossible. And that, independent of all other issues, is what is most crucial to understand about this often illuminating, frequently chilling and always engrossing neo-docudrama recreation of the events of September 11, 2001. How audiences will respond to the picture will depend less on taste and demographics than on whatever lingering emotional residue each individual still retains from the day in question. From a marketing standpoint, the challenge for Universal is not unlike that faced by Mel Gibson and Newmarket during the distribution of ''The Passion of the Christ,'' so it should come as little surprise that Universal has enlisted many of those same individuals to shepherd the effort here. more...
|
|
Critic Reviews
