harpoonipa

I saw a good review for this somewhere.

Jadzia

I can't believe Jeffrey Nordling is actually playing a good guy here?!?

Surprised he is not one of the terrorists.

OldBoy

Very chilling and realistic. I don't see how any theatrical release could do the event as much justice as this little gem.

William Fuld

Why not?

SMB-IL

It was surprisingly well done. The subject was dealt with in a realistic way and pretty much devoid of sugary sweet scenes or stereotypical hysteria that you might have expected about the first dramatic take on Flight 93. I strongly agree with scott1598 -- the theatrical release is going to have to go some to top this.

OldBoy

because this was so well done, that i think anything theatrical would just seem like exploitation, rather than homage which this very much was.

DJariya

Excellent film. Very suspenseful and I thought it paid a great tribute to those who were on that flight. There was another film that aired on Discovery on 9/11 that Kiefer Sutherland narrated and that one was so intriguing to watch as well.

Jadzia

Something that kind of made me laugh was when the hijacker got into the pilot seat and the first thing he did was carefully buckle his seat belt. I guess he was worried about getting hurt.

Then I immediately felt bad for laughing at a 9/11 movie.

Dr_Evil

I only saw about 15-20 minutes of it and was not that impressed. The acting was terribly forced and didn't seem natural for how I would think people in that situation would act. What was up with everyone's wife answering the phone with a baby in tow? Sometimes two or three at a time. I understand that these people had family and children, but it seemed like they were beating you over the head with it.

superman69

this movie is currently saved on my DVR. glad to hear good things about it. i will more than likely transfer it to a tape to go along with all the other 9/11 documentries that i have somewhat collected. i just came to the realization that i have been keeping these documentries so that one day if my kids wanna see actual footage or are somewhat curious, i will have them preserved on VHS. in 10-15 years where my kids would actually care, where am i gonna find a vhs player?

SMB-IL

I would get everything on DVD for the kids -- I have 18 DVDs on the shelf re: 9/11 for the nieces and nephews when they're old enough.

Goldberg74

I caught the last hour of it. Well done.

I have to admit that I teared up at the end when the guy on the plane and the operator recited the Lord's Prayer together.

Matthew Chmiel

I watched around an hour of it (I was more busy flipping than anything else), and I have the same opinion as you do on it. Very un-natural and very forced. I believe that's simply for the reason that the writer/director/producers wanted to not only show the people on Flight 93 reactions, but also the people they were trying to reach and contact at the same time.

I'm going on a hunch and saying Greengrass' version of it in April will be better simply on the fact that the entire film (supposedly) takes place in the plane (no cut backs to anything else).

beencrazier

I cried the whole way through it, but I'm pregnant and emotional. I thought it was very well done- but that might be a biased opinion.

coli

I really think subjects pertaining to history like this should wait 20 years before making a film on it, to me it is still too early to watch this. Then again, it is my opinion and I am sure that many will disagree cause it seemed that many here enjoyed it.

raven56706

damn... i missed it .... anyone know when it will play again

Hubcap

i saw it, and enjoyed it. Thought it was interesting how they where asking about the other planes that crashed into the towers and the entire bomb situation. Worth checking it out.

Meteu185

It's different from this, right?

http://flight93.net/

Bandoman

I enjoyed it, I thought it was well done. Kudos to the producers/director for not putting in a cheesy soundtrack.

Groucho

This is all I saw, and I thought it was way too over-the-top with the melodrama. It's "too soon" for me to watch the whole thing.

Rogue588

Granted, I only caught the last hour, but I guess I was watching a different flick. I didn't catch the "unnatural", "forced" acting that ya'll are talking about. If you wanna see that, you should've seen Smallville's "vigilante" last week. Ugh.

And as for the over-the-top-ed-ness, if it's basically a faithful retelling of what happened that day (it is, in'nit?), what makes it "melodramatic"?

Legolas

I guess that means all hell will break loose if this is ever shown in public schools.

Jadzia

I liked the part when the Verizon operator was looking up in her crisis manual and could not find a page for how to handle a hijacking.

It reminded me of the scene in Being John Malkovich where John Cusack, the unemployed puppeter, is looking in the want ads under "P".

Dr_Evil

I was actually being nice with those terms. The twenty minutes I saw struck me as so cheesy I couldn't believe someone would give it the greenlight for a 9/11 movie so soon after the fact. I'd place this with all the other coal miner's trapped/girl falls down a well/ movies of the week. Perhaps the subject matter is influencing some opinions here or perhaps I saw the worst twenty minutes of the movie. Or maybe I'm just in the minority with my opinion on this. Any way, I call them as I see them.

Breakfast with Girls

I just saw this on A&E. It was hit-or-miss in places--some reactions seemed over the top, some were too underplayed, some felt real. The scenes on the plane were well-done, I thought.

It was very difficult for me to watch, though. When the terrorists put on their red bandanas and stood up I realized that my heart was beating so hard I could feel it in my chest--it was like a flashback to five years ago, even though I obviously wasn't on any plane at the time.