IMDb > Flight 93 (2006) (TV) > IMDb user comments

IMDb user comments for
Flight 93 (2006) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

Filter: Hide Spoilers:
Page 1 of 10:[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [Next]
Index 91 comments in total 

53 out of 87 people found the following comment useful :-
What a movie, 30 January 2006
9/10
Author: b_chocolate_2004 from United States

I guess I don't know what I was expecting, but this movie went above and beyond what I thought it was going to be. I am not very good when it comes to actually judging how good or bad a movie is, but I gave this movie a 9 because it absolutely broke my heart. On Sept. 11 2001, I was in high school watching everything happen on TV and I guess I didn't cry then or at all because I was so shocked and didn't understand. This movie made me realize how terrible this event really was, and for the first time, I shed tears. This movie was a good movie to give you an idea of what it was really like for those people and what their families went through and what they knew. I am truly sorry that people feel that they need to do this and this movie has made me feel awful, but it did a very good job of making you feel the way you should feel when you think about these types of things.

Was the above comment useful to you?

93 out of 170 people found the following comment useful :-
A Dreadfully Melodramatic Spin on a Real Tragedy, 1 February 2006
2/10
Author: ejavignon

Saw it on A&E last night and the only thing that drew me in was the curiosity of how much worse it might get. All the shots of innocent children playing were gratuitous and emotionally manipulative. The opening scenes of the baggage inspectors being so thorough was a bit contrived (apparently they were doing a better job back then than they do now). I got the sense that one of the goals of this film was to exculpate the federal government for its complacency, which after all is almost as much to blame for 9/11 as the hijackers. The hijackers were one-dimensional characters, almost like video game characters. There is no effort to show what their motives might have been, or to show that actual people did these things. I might be accused of sympathizing with the terrorists, but the fact is that they had a rationale (twisted as it was) for doing what they did, and if we are to end terrorism, we need to know and understand why it happens. I also couldn't identify with any of the passengers. Perhaps if the film makers spent less effort portraying the idyllic lives they lost (beautiful homes, beautiful children--did they really all live in tree-lined mansions in the countryside with angelic children) and spent more time on character development, it would have brought the pathos home. The Lord's Prayer sequence was particularly crass. If this wasn't based on a real event, it would simply have been an utterly forgettable B disaster movie not worth commenting on. As it is, this movie is a poor tribute to those who died that day, and a ghoulish attempt to satisfy our curiosity for what it might have been like to be on the plane that day rather than help us understand what happened and why.

Was the above comment useful to you?

40 out of 69 people found the following comment useful :-
Never cried as much in my life, 30 January 2006
10/10
Author: Calios from Atlanta, GA

This was very well done despite being on a small budget. I was shaking through most of it as I was reliving the experience through the actors and events. The acting and writing was excellent and though the real people surely looked different this movie put faces with the names. The characterizations were done very convincingly and I now want to see photos of the real people to see how well the casting was. I know I will never take for granted my next flight and will be aware of those around me and what they are doing. I found myself wondering during the movie, why hasn't more been done to avenge this day as I still have a empty feeling that those that would attack our country have not been hurt enough for what happened on this day so that they or their children won't attack again. There can be no secret of what happens in the end, but it was very interesting how they figured out what the overheard "Let's roll" quote was for. This movie did make me totally forget everything and I was glued to the television. The "I love you" scenes were nicely done. The movie was not boring, though it could have easily have been. But like the movie "Blackhawk Down" it's a very powerful emotional movie and seeing it more than once can be exhausting, but it's a valuable and enlightening movie and needs to be seen by those that can handle it.

Was the above comment useful to you?

14 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
Weak effort. Watch "United 93" instead, 9 January 2007
5/10
Author: Renegade X from Canada

The made-for-TV "Flight 93" was on A&E last night, so I watched it having recently been pleasantly impressed by the (similar/same) story of "United 93", which I rented on DVD just a few weeks ago.

Perhaps my opinion of "Flight" would be different if I had not seen "United" first, but I just didn't feel the power, emotion and anger that I'd felt while watching "United". "Flight" felt detached, poorly-acted and strangely 'calm', whereas "United" portrayed well the sense of in-credulousness of the situation as it unfolded and brought back the sick feeling we all had that day when it was realized what was actually going on. The air traffic controllers/airline people on the ground in "Flight" however seemed content to sit there serenely and simply wait for another opportunity to say, "There goes another one". And when one of the hijacked passengers uses his cell phone to give a sad farewell to his wife, she hangs up without even saying so much as "I love you".

Perhaps though my main problem with "Flight" is that it merely recreates what (is believed) to have happened, while "United" does the same while reminding us that procedures, organization & interaction on the ground were inexcusably poor, and that there are valuable lessons to be learned from this tragedy. By glossing over that aspect of the fateful day, "Flight 93" falls flat.

So if you've seen "United 93" already, don't waste your time with "Flight 93" - and if you haven't seen either but are interested in the story, make it "United".

Was the above comment useful to you?

31 out of 54 people found the following comment useful :-
Wow., 3 February 2006
7/10
Author: specklescit from United States

This is a very emotionally sirring movie. THat's really all there is to it. THe people on FLight 93 were courageous in their efforts to keep their plane from destroying another building and killing more people. THe poster before me criticised the movie for being faulty in dialogue, effects, etc., but without any first-hand accounts to go on concerning what happened on the plane, I think this film was excellent. As far as the effects go, it's a TV movie... What do you expect?? I feel for all people who lost someone that day, not only on Flight 93, but also in New York and in Washington. I pray that this movie does the victims and their families justice.

Was the above comment useful to you?

9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
not bad, 29 June 2006
Author: mattkratz (themattk@hotmail.com) from Richardson, TX

This was a decent film that might actually have portrayed the events on United Flight 93 on September 11. I think that it is comparable to United 93, the other film about the same subject, and I liked both movies about the same. This film captured the obvious fear the passengers felt on that day, and goes into more detail with the phone calls they made to their loved ones telling them what was happening. The suspense in the movie was kept high despite the fact that you knew what was going to happen. The cockpit-charging scene was the highlight of the film, in my opinion. You learn a little bit more about some of the passengers than in the other movie. If you have an interest in 9/11 and would like to see a movie about the heroes on that day, this movie might be for you.

**1/2 out of ****

Was the above comment useful to you?

9 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Unbelievably..., 13 February 2008
1/10
Author: mattmoore90 from United Kingdom

awful, i was forced to watch this unrealistic account of the events of 9/11 for part of my media course and by the end, i wanted to quit my media course and move to Tibet to become a Buddhist monk leaving behind what i believe to be the end of Western Civilization. The characters are unbelievably patriotic and wooden. Especially the man who tried to stand up to the terrorists in his unrealistic, calm, America idealistic manner and in return got stabbed, if i was on that plane and witnessed that, it wouldn't be the terrorists stabbing him, it would be me. Now in the real events i have researched what happened and found that poor man was stabbed without knowing what was going on. Now being an American production they felt the unnecessary need of presenting him as an American hero that stood up to the terrorists. It's pathetic, Americans once again trying to rewrite history so its looks as though they have gained a victory from the tragic events, you lost, accept it as a tragedy please.

Was the above comment useful to you?

18 out of 31 people found the following comment useful :-
Pretty average TV stuff, 29 June 2006
6/10
Author: warmtrooper from Berkeley, CA

I accidentally rented this out, thinking this was "United 93" (a Hollywood action movie with a much bigger budget, not yet on DVD at the time of this writing).

So I knew this would be watered down, PG-13 production for the family.

To its credit, the movie focused on the drama of the passengers, their personalities and conversations with their loved ones--which is smart to do considering the low budget. There were some anguished moments with the doomed passengers on the phone with their loved ones-this movie excelled at portraying probably what those conversations were like--they were mostly credible, and even touching.

Oh,there is not one famous actor in this movie.

The most interesting moment was when the hijacker pilot pressed the wrong button in the cockpit, and instead of addressing the passengers, he broadcast his bomb message to air traffic controllers on the ground. I love details like that.

This movie was not very exciting, but the scripting was intelligent and the acting, though not remarkable, was decent.

I notice a lot of posters seem concerned with accuracy of events here. I find it interesting that if we watch a movie about a civil war battle, only the experts know how much was accurate. But on this event, everyone is an expert, since the event was so fresh. A lot of unnecessary politicizing is the result.

Whether it's propaganda or drama, the movie just isn't all that exciting to watch as entertainment, or compelling as serious drama. 6/10

Was the above comment useful to you?

52 out of 99 people found the following comment useful :-
Which is more pathetic, the film or the fans?, 23 February 2006
1/10
Author: rowmorg from Eel Pie Island

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

The fans are so embarrassingly credulous. They have bought the whole package, hook, line and sinker. There's absolutely no doubt in their minds that cavemen from Afghanistan organised a successful attack on the world's most expensive air force. They certainly believe the official line that Iraq was involved, too. The government told them so enough times --- in fact certain tenacious hardliners still do. I wonder how they explain their appointed President losing interest so rapidly in capturing Osama Bin Laden?

They watch a film (this one) that shows a hijacker wearing a bomb-belt, when he was earlier shown going through X-ray security at Newark airport. Now either Argenbright Security was bent, United was in on the deal, or there was no bomb-belt, because otherwise the relatives would be going berserk with lawsuits. The film is an utter fake.

The cellphone calls could never have happened. The airlines are only now installing the pica-cell technology to make them work. How come none of the other 200 passengers on the other three airliners were reported making cellphone calls? The cellphone calls were vital on Flight 93 to get the details of the "hero" legend across, which would then be used by the Pentagon as a recruiting campaign for invading Iraq. Because they were impossible, there would be no billing paperchase in the case of an independent inquiry, but enough people believed they could work to start a war. Now they make a movie to persuade people it was all possible.

That Todd Beamer phone call, the one where he is supposed to have said "Let's Roll" -- that was not made to his pregnant wife. That call was reported by the enormous Verizon corporation, which just happened at the time to have a $1.5 billion contract with the US government and the Pentagon for high-level communications systems. Even his wife was stunned that he was supposed to have recited the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 --- read her ghost-written book, where she admits just that. They only called to tell her about her husband's call after a full working week had elapsed --- Monday morning to Friday night.

And the cockpit voice recording that was miraculously found, it was totally useless for establishing what happened. Read Gere Longman's Among the Heroes, even he admits the recording was useless.

This film is for little pudding babies in kiddy-chairs gaping at the screen, sucking it all in with no brain operating at all. The state of American viewers is truly desperate...

Was the above comment useful to you?

6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Fantasy from start to finish, 28 September 2006
1/10
Author: piratenews from United States

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Colonel Rick Gibney was awarded for shooting down Flight 93, which had been hijacked by remote control by the White House, as confessed by Pentagon in Operation Northwoods. Will Oliver Stone or Mel Gibson please make a movie about THAT?! http://piratenews.org/flight93.html

"The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons. I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations." —Usama bin Laden, CNN, "Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks," September 17, 2001

"The goal has never been to get Bin Laden." —General Richard Myers, chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff at Pentagon

"On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, 202-324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden's Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, said: 'The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connected Bin Laden to 9/11'" —Ed Haas, Muckraker Report, "FBI says, 'No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11'," June 6, 2006 http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

"We've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming." —Dick Cheney, WhiteHouse.gov, "Interview of the Vice President by Tony Snow", March 29, 2006

"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." —George Bush Jr, March 13, 2002

Operation Northwoods: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf

Was the above comment useful to you?
Page 1 of 10:[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [Next]

Add another comment

Related Links

Plot summary Ratings Awards
External reviews Official site Plot keywords
Main details Your user comments Your vote history