Watched "Flight 93" last night after renting it from my local video store and i gotta say i was utterly impressed!! This movie captures the sheer terror and confusion felt by all the people and their families that day. It was so much better than the theatrical film "United 93" there were no over the top kills like in that one (ex the neck breaking scene i always felt was a tad overdone) and the conversations with the victims and their families make the film even more emotional. Plus the final 20 minutes literally left me speechless; the storming of the cockpit was the best part of the whole film; more better done than in United. I also liked the part where everyone begins introducing themselves to each other before they get ready to charge the cockpit they ended up knowing each others names before going down.the scenes after the crash are moving as well. overall this was a great film and even better than the theatrical film. If you're gonna watch a film based on this event, make it "Flight 93."

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.

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.

I've just read through some of the reviews and am quite surprised at the number of people who feel this film was contrived or heavy-handed in its emotional manipulation. Having worked on the film, I can say with some authority that everyone involved, especially Peter Markle, tried very hard to keep the story as authentic as possible. Conversations were taken verbatim, transcripts from 9/11 were painstakingly researched and family members of the passengers were consulted. In my own opinion, I think the terrorists were portrayed with more sensitivity than in United 93...meaning they seemed more like misguided human beings than monsters. Though having said that, United 93 focused more on the event and Flight 93 spends more time with the passengers and families.Even in post-production copious jokes were made about a son giving his full name to his mother, but that in and of itself is a testament to the desire of the producer and directors to stay as true-to-life as possible. They could have simply rewritten the line but in the end decided not to.I don't know how to say whether this film is "good" or "bad." I think it tries to be a fairly even-handed account of a devastating event and for the most part succeeds.