Left the theater a couple of hours ago..
--- '93' is a powerful semi-documentary style movie filmed in a 'real time' manner once the flight is taken over by the hijackers.
The surprising 'moral message' I got from the film is one regarding self defense.
--- Over and over we see the passengers hesitate to attack the two hijackers who are defending the aisle leading to flight deck with knives & a bomb. [the other two are in the cockpit]
According to cell phone conversations, the passengers knew early on that the pilot/copilot had been killed, and that other planes were flown into the trade center, in effect telling them that they were dead unless they took action to take back the aircraft.
-- Which leads the viewer to speculate why the passengers take so long to try to overpower the 2 or at most three men whose only real weapons were small knives. - [The bomb makes no logical difference in outcome.]
The movie makes clear that they hesitated because they had no weapons.
-- And, - because they were accustomed to hearing the bureaucratic chant of 'take no action' -- 'offer no resistance' - to those who intend to kill you.
Finally, when they do 'roll', a muffled cheer went up in the theater, one that we can hope will be heard all over America.
I think the wife of one of the family members said they waited because they were over a populated area and they waited until they were over the unpopulated fields of PA before they took action.
That information alone is stunning. They were more concerned about the people on the ground than they were about themselves.
I actually thought the movie did an excellent job of showing that attacking the hijackers was not a simple, UN-thought-out event. Specific planning went into the attack: what weapons do we have, gather up those weapons, move all the big guys up front, go fast, assign/take on specific tasks ("I'm going to break his arm"), what do we do with the plane after we take over, who will fly the plane, can he fly the plane, make calls home to loved ones, time the attack, etc.
I thought that part of the film was particularly good because it showed there's more to taking back a plane than just disabling the bad guys in the passenger cabin.