Purely Joyful Movie!

Good movie but grossly overrated

Expected more

Beautiful, moving film.

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.

If one is good at suspending disbelief, "Flight 93" is a mildly entertaining piece of drama, along the lines of a typical 'Lifetime' TV movie. The unforgivable sham is that they would make a cheesy TV movie about a subject like this. As a documentary, this is pure lies and propaganda. Cell phone calls at 3,000 feet? Impossible! Don't people realize this?? Only now, in 2010 are the airlines beginning to install the equipment to make this possible. Perhaps Flight 93 was a magic plane, because there were no cell phone calls reported coming from the other three planes that were hijacked that day. People need to think, and it is frightening how many people will believe anything that they hear on television, or from their crooked government. I realize this is a movie site so I will review the film.first off, those endless, obnoxious scenes of children playing, crying, laughing, running, hugging; I haven't seen an example of such shameless propaganda since the newsreels from Nazi Germany! Did every single passenger on that plane have a litter of children? In one hilarious scene a man phones his wife (ON A CELLPHONE FROM AN AIRPLANE NO LESS) and she is there with three other women, and EACH WOMAN IS BOUNCING A BABY ON HER LAP! The thing that worried me most about this film is that the USA is going to have a population problem soon, if every American has an average of 8 kids! But the most unforgivable thing about this mess is the way the terrorists were portrayed. They are given no character development, and absolutely no attempt was made to even offer a basic explanation of their reasoning, of their philosophy, of the way they view religion and their beliefs of the afterlife. The entire film focused on a bunch of Americans calling their families and saying goodbye. Sorry but, can't people see that, although those people might have been good, fine citizens with families, they are not very interesting? The most interesting characters on that plane were the terrorists, and the only thing we got to learn about these guys is that: A: they are sexy, and B: they like to wear red Rambo bandannas! Shame on all involved, and mostly on the United States Government that is JUST AS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 9/11 INCIDENT as Al'Quaida, with their lapse, lazy security and their failure to handle a disaster of this proportion. If America is the richest, most powerful nation on Earth, as they are fond of saying, then where is all the money going?? certainly not towards protecting its own land. For those thinking people who are interested in the subject, see "United 93," a professionally-made film that leaves out the melodrama, and presents the hard facts, while giving at least some insight to the mindset of Islamic Extremists, (and please remember that these extremists only account for about 10 percent of the Islamic World, as the majority of Muslims are deeply saddened and ashamed by these violent events.)Lastly, this ridiculous film perpetuates the myth that the passengers of Flight 93 were heroes. Do people actually believe that these people, in their last moments on Earth, were thinking, "Well, were gonna die anyway, so lets save the White House!?" I wasn't on that plane, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that they were doing the most natural thing in the World; they were trying to survive, to save their asses. I don't think that saving the White House entered the mind of even one person on that plane. These people were not saints; they were just ordinary people, falsely portrayed as heroes to boost the US morale and get Americans "bloodthirsty" for revenge. "Flight 93?" See "Snakes On a Plane" instead; it's better fiction, and not so offensive...

Flight 93Last month, in recognition of the 8th anniversary of 9/11, I reviewed the film United 93. As good as that film is, it's not the only movie about that fateful flight, nor in my opinion, is it the best.These days it seems that the best crews are actually working in television, and the made for TV movie Flight 93, a joint production of A&E and FOX is a good example. It tells the exact same story as United 93 taken from the same sources, and also told in a dramatic narrative style, but with a bit more impact. It's a shame that far fewer people have actually seen this TV version of the story.As I've said, both are good "films", but Flight 93, which is technically not a film because it was shot on HD Video instead of 35mm Film like United 93, has more dynamic camera work. Perhaps it's the size difference between the film camera and the HD camera, but even though both were shot primarily hand held, the angles, tight shots and pans are more daring and interesting in Flight. Additionally creative choices and edits were a bit sharper with Flight. For example, within the first few minutes of the film we know the names of the hijackers, and most of the key passengers, thanks to the great idea to include a series of tight shots on the boarding passes as passengers boarded the plane.Flight 93 also includes lots of details throughout that weren't shown in United 93, including some that were perhaps whitewashed from United (whether this was intentional to avoid controversy, lawsuit, for creative reasons, or to lionize all the innocents, or just an accident of choice in the editing room, it still has an impact) for example, the fact that the pilots of the commercial aircraft had received a warning against possible cockpit intrusion, but chose to open the door anyway.While none of these little things – a shot here, a detail there – makes much of a difference on it's own, taken together, they add up to a more dramatic story.If you're the type that views only movies shot on film as "quality", and eschew anything video – yeah, you'll probably like United 93 better. But if you can enjoy HD video just as much (and with a story this engaging, how couldn't you?) I'd recommend Flight 93 between the two.

Flight 93 was amazing. I accidentally rented out United 93 when I wanted to watch this movie for the fourth time with my friends, and serioulsly every second I was noticing places where Flight 93 did it better. I almost cried with this movie, since it really brings you into the lives of the people who were involved - both on the plane and off, as in the families and all the tearful conversations and goodbyes. When I was watching United 93 I felt like I was watching a documentary. There was barely any emotion in it. Almost the whole thing takes place on the ground in that big airplane controller room with the tvs, and even only towards the middle do people begin freaking out - up until wayy into the movie no one was even excited, and it was very very boring to me. To me the whole thing was boring, because there was no emotion in it, and after seeing Flight 93, I knew what the story was, and I knew what happened, so seeing a documentary with a little bit more info on the behind the scenes from the controller room was absolutely boring. I watched the movie hoping it would get better but it didn't. The thing is, it probably is possible for people to like United 93, because maybe it could be good, but just not after Flight 93, which I feel may give you an even better grasp of what actually happened that day, and it really makes you cry. It just delivers such a stronger message, and is really amazing all the way through. I saw some comment on United 93 saying something like "the last 15 minutes make you cry!!" I did not cry a bit, or even get close to crying! While with Flight 93, the emotion is there, the whole movie, so obviously you cry at the horrible ending!! I feel that the reason someone would cry at the end of United 93 is just because they feel sad about that actual day, and not because the movie itself actually had such a big effect that it made them cry. I admit, maybe United 93 was more "Hollywood", maybe because it had more big music or something, or maybe it has some more common actors? I don't know, but if anyone wants to use the fact that Flight 93 had no famous actors in it as a reason to prove it's not big - I bought the DVD, and in the behind the scenes thing they explained that although they totally could have had all the famous actors play in the movie, they specifically chose the unknown ones so that it would look more real and it would look more like actual people were dying and not just some actor in another movie. But I was very surprised though that all these actors were unknown, because everyone's acting in this movie was amazing - truly undiscovered talent. All around, Flight 93 had the perfect script, the perfect actors, and all around the perfect technique to make an amazing movie, and while United 93 might have the Hollywood name, it doesn't mean a thing. Flight 93 was DEFINITELY ten times better.