"Is it too soon for United 93? Is it too soon for a stark, solemn and sobering depiction of how passengers on the fourth hijacked jet of that awful morning overpowered their captors, driving their plane into the ground and sparing us what might have been the most emotionally crippling blow of all: the destruction of the U.S. Capitol. Is it too soon for that? The question vexes me. We're not talking about taste here, after all. Not one has said United 93 is a bad or exploitative movie. So the issue of whether it is 'too soon' for this film clearly springs from a less high-minded concern: that it will hurt too much; that it will be too visceral a reminder of too painful a day."

""United 93" winds up feeling like a cross between a motion picture and 90 minutes of therapy — the kind of movie we should see, in that civic obligation sort of way, rather than the kind we might actually enjoy. There’s not a lot to learn from this story; every last person in the audience knows exactly what is going to happen. The movie meanders back and forth across the line separating documentary reenactment from full-blown drama, never quite committing either way. But there’s a grit — a vicious, real-time tension — that serves to heighten rather than undermine the crescendo. Virtually every scene is hewed to a sharp and frightening simplicity, blissfully free of the usual cinematic bloviations."

"Christian Clemenson - Tom Burnett"

"It is not too soon for "United 93," because it is not a film that knows any time has passed since 9/11. The entire story, every detail, is told in the present tense. We know what they know when they know it, and nothing else. Nothing about Al Qaeda, nothing about Osama bin Laden, nothing about Afghanistan or Iraq, only events as they unfold. This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims."

"On September 11, one of the darkest days in our history, 40 ordinary people sat down as strangers and stood up as one."

"United they stood."

"Cheyenne Jackson - Mark Bingham"

"The war on terror begins with 40 ordinary people."

"I'm not taking any more chances. We got stuff flying around we have no control over, and I don't want a board full of these planes hitting every building on the East Coast. This is a national emergency. Everyone lands, regardless of destination."

"Title card: Of the four aircraft hijacked that day, United 93 was the only one that did not reach its target. It crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03am. No one survived. Military commanders were not notified that United 93 had been hijacked until four minutes after it had crashed. The nearest fighter jets were 100 miles away. At 10:18am, the President authorized the military to engage hijacked aircraft. Fearing an accidental shoot down, military commanders chose not to pass the order to pilots in the air. By 12:06pm every civilian airliner over America had been forced to land. Amidst an unprecedented military mobilization, US airspace was closed until further notice. Dedicated to the memory of all those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001."

"[first lines] Ziad. It's time."

"On September 11, four planes were hijacked. Three hit their targets, one did not."

"David Alan Basche - Todd Beamer"

"Enzo Tarascio - Professor Quadri"

"September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth."

"[last lines]] [as the plane inverts] Allahu Akbar!"

"We must go lower."

"[as he puts the plane into a steep dive] Allahu Akbar!"

"[grabbing flight attendant Debbie Welsh from behind] Allahu Akbar!"

"Hi, Mom, it's me. I'm on the plane that's been hijacked. I'm just calling to tell you that I love you, and goodbye. This really kind woman handed me the phone and she said to call you."

"I promise you, if I get out of this, I'm quitting tomorrow. I'll quit tomorrow. I promise, I'll quit tomorrow."

"We should kill her now. We don't need her."

"Hey, this is a suicide mission. We have to do something. They are not going to land this plane; they are not going to take us back to the airport."

"[as the passengers batter the cockpit door with the serving cart] If we don't get in there, we'll all die!"

"An expressionless, silent woman who is in charge of the operation takes a gun and kills Harrison Bergeson and the ballerina. The action is televised without her knowledge and one of the last things one sees is her slightly startled face staring into the camera. That is what Harrison wanted the nation to see—the vapid face of evil. End of broadcast. The extraordinary has been eliminated. Please stand by."

"The film is only twenty-five minutes long, but it packs a punch as terrible as Michael Radford's gritty, nearly two-hour long Nineteen Eighty-Four. The production values are as good as any $20 million budget blockbuster's. As a parable on the price of silence and the fate of those who prefer security and passivity over independence and freedom, it is one of the best films I have ever seen."

"Come on, guys. What are we waiting for? Let's roll. Come on, let's go already. Let's go."

"I recently watched a little gem of a cinematic parable about a Rawlsian dystopia, 2081, which depicts a society in which "everyone is equal.""

"[killing Debbie Welsh] In the name of God!"

"I'm calling from the air-phone. You believe me, don't you mom?"

"[after he snatches the bomb] I got it! I got it! I got it! It's a fake! It's a fake! The bomb's a fake! It's a fake!"

"2081 is worth seeing. It's stirring and dramatic. But don't expect high fives and butt kicking at the end."

"Armie Hammer — Harrison Bergeron"

"Tammy Bruce — the United States Handicapper General"

"David Healy — Replacement T.V. anchor"

"Julie Hagerty — Hazel Bergeron, Harrison's mother"

"Patricia Clarkson — the narrator"

"James Cosmo — George Bergeron, Harrison's father"

"2081 is a short film based on the Kurt Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron." It gets right to the point, and nails the adaptation in about 25 minutes. That's got to be a record."

"The story is brutal, but she's hilarious."

"Fosco Giachetti - Il colonnello"

"Open the door. Open the door and nobody will be hurt."

"Lord to you I have submitted myself, given you my faith. On you I depend."

"[Bingham wrestling him for the controls] I can't pull! I can't!"

"Stewart uses his vast experience and established screen image as the all-American hero to an advantage in a role, which was made to order as he reached the later phases of his glorious career. Beginning with his protag's name, Charlie is a classic American hero, played by Cooper, Stewart, and even Bogart, a man initially cherishing isolation and lack of involvement only to be forced into a divisive conflict through circumstances, both personal and political."

"A successful film not just because of the marriage of the right actor in the appropriate genre, but also the timely infusion of challenging questions about a nation at war."

"When this movie was released in 1965, the U. S. war in Vietnam had just begun, and antiwar sentiments had not yet began to swell in America. Libertarians, of course, had opposed the war from the start, but at this time, the public sentiment in these united states was generally in favour of deployment. Thus, the average moviegoer did not draw any connection between this film and the war when it was released. A few years later, however, antiwar activists looked back on this libertarian western fondly. The antiwar and propertarian message in this film, however, should be looked upon in a broader context. The message, after all, is timeless. All wars really do resemble the description given by Mr. Anderson. Whether it be the War Between the States, the Vietnam War, or our present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, governments wage them for the perceived benefit of the political class, and they get us to fight for them. Let us, therefore, dream of a brighter future, a future where property rights are respected and where governments, insofar as they continue to exist, are so weak and powerless that they cannot compel even one man to fight on their behalf."

"Set in a Virginia farm during the Civil War, this popular family film offers all-American star Jimmy Stewart a classic role, a widower with six sons who initially refuses to takes sides or get involved in the conflict—only to learn otherwise."

"Dabbs Greer as Abernathy"