United 93 R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 5, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 129,258
United 93 might be an insular response to a global tragedy, but -- taken on its own, limited terms -- it is powerful and sincere, giving reign to pity and fear without indulging jingoism or sentimentality. For that at least it deserves applause. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 1, 2006
All that United 93 can tell us. . .is that many people are brave and some people are dastardly. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 18, 2017
Rating: 3/4 -- The film pulls you into its world, turns you a passive participant. You can feel the desperation of the passengers and as they run to the cockpit... Full Review
Outlook
Jan 18, 2019
4 stars out of 4 -- [The director] imagines a sea of arms reaching into the cockpit in a way that redefines heroism. Far from being exploitive, the effect is inspiring: This is the best of us.
Rolling Stone
May 18, 2006
5 stars out of 5 -- Greengrass's picture unfolds with grim authenticity....Sobering, enlightening, important.
Ultimate DVD
Oct 1, 2006
5 stars out of 5 -- [A]n emotional mosaic so forceful, so credible, that viewers will feel as though they are watching the fateful day unfolding, once again, before their very eyes.
Box Office
Jun 1, 2006
Rating: 4/4 -- It's a difficult and upsetting experience but a worthwhile one, which will linger in your mind long after the film ends. Full Review
Jerusalem Post
Mar 22, 2016

Product Description:

UNITED 93, director Paul Greengrass's meticulous reconstruction of the events surrounding the crash--the result of a heroic struggle between the passengers and hijackers--of the fourth plane to be hijacked on September 11, 2001, is a landmark in filmmaking. Greengrass has chosen the most politically and emotionally charged source material available to an artist in the early 21st century, and shaped it into a psychologically draining, terrifyingly real, and technically brilliant film. Like his first feature-length work, BLOODY SUNDAY, UNITED 93 doesn't follow a traditional cinematic narrative structure; via hand-held cameras, grainy DV stock, and frenetic editing, it instead presents a visceral (at times sickening) in-the-moment documentary-style experience that maximizes the film's unavoidable air of tension and dread without being crassly manipulative. Yet for all of its precision and craft, UNITED 93 still depicts one of the most terrifying ordeals the United States has ever had to face--and that it was released less than five years after those events took place plays an undeniably enormous role in how the film is received. It is impossible to watch UNITED 93 and not be profoundly moved, whether that emotion is fear, sadness, anxiety, or pure rage. And it is an emotional catharsis far removed from what is the filmmaker's delicate hand and deft touch. Greengrass, though, is quite fearless in his depiction of the chaos of the day--the President is frustratingly missing; the FAC, NORAD, and local air-traffic control centers are shown in a disoriented panic; and the terrorists are brutal and remorseless--and, to his credit, he avoids soft-pedaling any political agenda and doesn't blindly canonize the flight's passengers. Rather, their heroism is treated as the product of a logical decision made by ordinary men and women who found themselves in the most extraordinary and illogical of situations. And that, ultimately, is where the power of UNITED 93 lies.

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  • UPC: 025192657023
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