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.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 29 wins & 57 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
... left me feeling curiously unmoved and even slightly resentful.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
28 Apr 2006
fresh:
... this is a picture we all must see.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
28 Apr 2006
rotten:
Even the undeniable heroism of the passengers on United 93 doesn't edify as it should.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
3 May 2006
rotten:
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.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
12 May 2006
rotten:
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.