It's been a while since Matt and I have been to the movies. I think the last one we saw was in January when we took his brother to see Narnia. There are several coming up that we want to see, so you'll probably start seeing a few more reviews here and there.
Anyway, to the review. It's good. It's really good. I didn't have much for expectations going into this movie. I've seen so much stuff on 9-11 and figured that this would be Hollywood's big-budget version of what happened. I was wrong. From the start of the movie, you get the haunting suspicion that it easily could have been you on any one of those planes. They shot it in a real airport and a real plane. It just adds to the experience.
I was also expecting hokey character development, aka, we see mom kissing her kids goodbye at daycare and going to the airport. Again, wrong. They don't even tell us the passenger names. Again, it just adds to it. I was also pleasantly surprised that they didn't slant the movie one way or another. I didn't leave the theater with a hatred for muslims or even for the men that hijacked the planes. There's no blame placed on any government or anyone else, really.
There's no special effects to get in the way, either. It was refreshing. And it's intense. It's not like I didn't know what was going to happen in the end, but I left the theater crying like a baby. There was a lot of room for the directors to screw this one up, but they really did a good job. This isn't necessarily a movie that you have to see in the theater, but I would definitely pick it up when it comes to video.
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