United 93

—1. Overview
—2. Cast and Crew
—3. Photo Pages
—4. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack
—5. Posters (Airplanes)
—6. Production Notes (pdf)
—7. Spiritual Connections
—8. Presentation Downloads

It’s about 1am and I just got back from seeing the late night showing of United 93. I have to be awake at 6am to go to a Youth Leader Training Seminar. I shouldn’t be writing this review so late. I should take my time on it. But I need to write this now. While it is fresh on my mind.

I know the story, I know the ending. We lived it. Usually movies are spoiled when you know the outcome; there is always that burden to know what happens next…

We know what happens next.

But for some reason, I cannot explain, we are sucked into this story about these people. We have heard it before but this movie makes it so wonderfully new. I am stumbling on words that are adequate enough to describe it.

At first when you start to watch it, you think wow these guys are really bad actors. Who did the casting. But after about 15 minutes you realize that everyone is a bad actor, and 5 minutes after that you realize that they are supposed to talk this way. These people are not acting. They are just living their life, and doing their jobs. There is no intense dialogue, there is no detailed conversations or sophisticated character development.

It’s like you are there…

The entire movie is real time, maybe give and take a few minutes. Most of the movie is thru the eyes of the Air Traffic Controllers. You watch the radar with them. The fact that you know what is happening allows the movie to build on itself.

My review needs to stop here. I am speechless and awestruck and any attempt to describe how amazing this movie is will just simply fail.

Go see United 93. Period.

— Overview