About 30 people in the 4:20 showing at the Academy 8 in Greenbelt, Maryland. I restrained myself for most of the flick but started gushing tears during the credits. All but three of us left at the start of the credits. Those folks seemed a bit hurried to me.
I'm ready to nominate Paul Greentree for both writing and directing awards. The script was tight and the direction masterful.
What struck me most was the chaos on the plane, in the military command center, in the atc center. In hearing the story of Todd Beamer et. al. I saw things a bit more clinical then they played out (much more realistically) in the movie.
I was more sympathetic toward the hijackers than I thought I would be. I saw them more as driven by an external evil force than as intrinsically evil.
I will see United 93 again at least once before it ends its run, and I will get the dvd as soon as it is released.
IMHO, that is the point. Until the nature and name of the enemy are identified...we will strike at phantoms.
I don't believe killing jihadis will make a dent in this war. Each jihadi is like a tooth of a great white...remove one and there are many to replace it.
The enemy is a strain of islam...in fact it is the spiritual force behind islam.
To paraphrase Sun Tzu, " if one can't identify the enemy, one cannot kill the enemy."