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To his credit, director Peter Markle steers clear from any sense of exploitation (it helps that there was a five-year gap between the 9/11 tragedy and this respectable film); furthermore, both Markle and screenwriter Nevin Schreiner avoid the pitfalls of melodrama by keeping the action rooted in the facts as we know them. Speculation is necessary for some of the dramatic details, but Flight 93 benefits from a well-chosen cast of unknowns, which enhances our belief in them as ordinary citizens under extraordinary circumstances. As you might expect, several scenes are inherently unforgettable (up to and including the now heroic phrase "Let's roll!" as the counter-attack begins), and the authentically played emotions are further intensified by realistic special effects by Gary Gutierrez, who performed similarly laudable duties on The Right Stuff 23 years earlier, at the start of his visual effects career. Produced with the cooperation of surviving family members of those who perished on Flight 93, this well-made TV film handles difficult material with grace under pressure, and that alone serves as an admirable tribute to those brave passengers who gave their lives so that others could be saved. --Jeff Shannon
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Peter Markle |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 30 January, 2006 |
| FEATURES: | NTSC |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
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Customer Reviews of Flight 93
Smoke and Mirrors Slick theatrical reproduction of the official storyline of Flight 93. Does not address the fact that cell phones ( at that time) do not work above 2000 ft. altitude and the plane was far above that when the first calls supposedly came in. One of the callers called his mother and used his last name. Who does that when they call their mother? He also asked, " Don't you believe it's me?" Most telling smoking gun briefly glossed over in this film is the fact that the crash site was a crater about 30 ft. in diameter and 10 ft. deep with small pieces of light aluminum scattered around.No engines, tail section, wings, seats, bodies, luggage, nothing you would find at commercial airliner crash site no matter what the angle of impact. The first responders said, " There's no airplane here, let's look in the woods for it." The plane was never found in the woods or anywhere else. Americans need to wake the freak up before it's too late. Our country is being stolen from us. Robert J.
Just missed being great
Flight 93 does many things right. It provides a believable cast (good guys and bad guys) without any star power getting in the way. It keeps conjecture about what happened onboard to a minimum, in that most of the dialog is with people on the ground whom can verify what was actually said. That level of authenticity is appreciated.
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>However, the film has two flaws, one minor, and one major. The first flaw the film's concentration on the emotions of the passengers and loved ones on the ground. I would have preferred more action and passenger plotting, even at the risk of more conjecture.
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>The second flaw, and the one that removes the film from contention for five-star status, is that it does not take us with the passengers in their final moments of resolve, terror and courage as they try to wrest the plane from the control of the fanatics, only to have the plane driven into the ground. Instead, we only see the plane from a farmer's perspective, on the ground looking into the sky. This seems an uncharacteristic moment of cowardice on the part of the filmmakers, to have taken us so far on this flight with the passengers with whom we feel emotional connection, admiration and even love, but not let us fully participate in their horrible, tragic end. The film forces us to abandon them at the moments when we most should have been with them.
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Well-done depiction of a terrible day
Who can forget that terrible day, September 11, 2001, when 4 American airliners were hijacked by terrorists. This is a tense, yet tastefully-done re-enactment of events on board United Flight 93, which was the fourth airplane captured that day. As depicted in the movie, some of the passengers are phoning their families and telling them goodbye, while others are planning a group attack on the terrorists in the cockpit of the plane. Throughout the movie, distraught families are pictured watching t.v. or talking to their loved ones who are passengers on Flight 93. The movie was made with great sensitivity and does not stoop to sensational or overly-graphic portrayals of the terror and mayhem of that day. It is a fitting tribute to those brave people on board who gave their lives in order to save many others.