SummaryAcclaimed filmmaker Paul Greengrass writes and directs an unflinching drama that tells the story of the passengers and crew, their families on the ground and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Flight 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on the day of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil: September 11, 2001. (Un... Read More
Directed By:Paul Greengrass
Written By:Paul Greengrass
United 93
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
90
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Generally Favorable
7.7
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
98% Positive
39 Reviews
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3% Mixed
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100
Paul Greengrass and his cinematographer Barry Ackroyd have created an intestinally powerful and magnificent memorial to the passengers of that doomed flight. It is the film of the year. I needed to lie down in a darkened room afterwards. So will you.
100
One of the most harrowing, viscerally upsetting films ever made.
User score
Generally Favorable
79% Positive
163 Ratings
163 Ratings
16% Mixed
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
5% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Apr 27, 2025
10
Without a doubt the best movie about September 11 2001. Always on the edge of my seat. Some negative reviews are nonsensical.
Apr 27, 2025
10
Paul Greengrass at his best. The final minutes are phenomenal, the music, just experience this movie.
100
It is the highest compliment I can pay Greengrass to say that he is a master of the mundane, the routine and the everyday.
91
A respectful, accomplished, non-exploitative piece of historical filmmaking and -- for audiences -- a gripping white-knuckle ride all the way.
88
The movie is hard going, not least in the sense of powerlessness it leaves in an audience that knows exactly what will happen. And yet you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by these people, and by this day.
80
Best understood as a memorial…Like most memorials, it is respectful, premised on competing obligations to the dead and the living, and eager to stress that the deaths were not in vain. It not only tells us we should never forget but also illustrates how we should remember.
40
United 93, as grueling as it was to sit through, left me feeling curiously unmoved and even slightly resentful.
Dec 7, 2021
10
The film plays on our worst fears and hottest angers. It doesn’t shy away from the roughest, most emotionally terrifying reminders of that day. It doesn’t reassure us that “this is just a movie”.
Sep 23, 2023
6
Movie shows impressively how unprepared USA and also the whole aviation sector was for an event like this. Anyway, the film was made way to nervous and has many many repetitive scenes.
Jul 16, 2020
6
It's interesting in parts but rushed in others the scenes are a little jumpy in script.
Sep 11, 2018
2
Paul Greengrass's' United 93', although supra-real feeling and technically strong, ultimately fails us and fails the innocent people who perished that day. This ultra real film still misses the truth.
Feb 24, 2013
2
This movie should have been a tribute to the heroes who gave their lives to save so many others on 9/11. Instead, they are portrayed as vigilantes who killed themselves. All they had to go on was the black boxes and the phone calls made from the plane, the rest is conjecture and, in my humble opinion, complete and absolute bull Nothing like this happened on that plane. They took a tragic story and hollywoodized it until it became a mockery. I was not impressed.
Production Company:
- Universal Pictures
- StudioCanal
- Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
- Working Title Films
- Zak Productions
Release Date:Apr 28, 2006
Duration:1 h 51 m
Rating:R
Tagline:September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
