Flight United 93
Something urged me along to see it even though the grisly tale of a hijack that ends in death for all is hardly appetising fare. This film is, however, an excellent piece of film making and well worth seeing. It works first of all as cinema. 
It is gripping and coherent and takes us through what happened to flight 93 that day and to the chaos and disbelief in the control towers and headquarters that had to deal with this unprecedented event. It works very well too with the largely unknown cast and with real life people from that day recreating their parts – Ben Sliney is excellent. It comes across as having the authenticity of a documentary but the storytelling qualities of fiction. Most of all, it respects the dead, pulls no cheap tricks and tells it like it was, or as close as we shall ever perhaps know. 
All credit to director Paul Greengrass and his team, to photographer Barry Ackroyd and to the actors. A great achievement in a very sensitive area and suitably limited in its focus so as not to distract us from other issues.
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