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I, too, saw this before Inside Man, and it took everything I had to keep from jumping up and running out of the theatre. I didn't expect to break into a cold sweat sitting there. Looks like I won't be going to the cineplex for a while.
That isn't to say that a movie like Flight 93 couldn't be a good movie. I found Munich deeply moving (and I was only two when the events occurred that served as the movie's premise) and thought-provoking, a significant foreshadowing of what we would undergo in 2001, but when I recommended it to an older friend, she said that more than thirty years later the memory of what happened was not something she wanted to relive.
Maybe a movie like Flight 93 isn't really for us. But then, it should have been made later--and like Munich, it should take the long view for a generation facing its own monsters and learning from the mistakes of the past.
