United 93

IMDB

I'm disappointed at this film and I didn't even watch it! Two or three days ago I was watching CNN, and they interviewed two guys in relation to this film, one of them being the actor who played the role of one of the terrorists.

First they said that there were too little phone calls to really faithfully reconstruct what happened inside the airplane, so most of what you see in this film (dialogues and such) "were improvised". Yes, I repeat: the actor said during the CNN interview that the director simply asked the actors to get into the mood and improvise what they would've done had they been there themselves.

Second, they said that in the film all passengers except for one agree that they must try to stop the terrorists. In the film the only passenger who disagrees with trying to fight the terrorists is German. What the fuck, and then these two guys being interviewed say that actually, from the phone calls there's nothing to suggest that one, two, or any number of passengers were opposed to fighting the terrorists, much less the German specifically being this wimp.

So in short, this film sadly simply portrays what people on the ground "would like to believe" happened between the brave Americans, the coward German, and the bad guys the Muslims. But from the words of one of the actors, there's little hard evidence this is what really happened inside.

Now why am I including here a link to IMDB? Because I looked up their database for information about this film, and was surprised to find thousands of people have in average given it very good ratings. 7.8/10 is much better than most films I look up every once in a while.