United 93

UNITED 93 (2006) - May 17, 2006
A sometimes harrowing, sometimes slightly dull recounting of flight 93, the one plane on 9/11 that didn't hit its target. Directed by Paul "one note" Greengrass, so it's obviously directed with a gritty, documentary-like style (though it works a lot better here than it did in the Bourne Supremacy). The movie cuts between stuff on the ground, with the people controlling the planes trying to figure out what's going on, and the stuff on the plane itself. My biggest complaint with this movie was that after a while, the stuff on the ground started to feel a bit redundant -- once the idea that there was a lot of confusion on the ground is hammered home, watching random workers exclaim "is it a hijacking?" "it can't be a hijacking!" "the plane disappeared!" etc., starts to get a bit monotonous, especially since there aren't any characters. The stuff on the plane was really good though, particularly towards the end. I wish there had been more of that and less of the other stuff. ***