Very often, this thriller is plenty engaging, but just as often, it's bland, maybe even dull in its trying so blasted hard to be thorough and unromantic with the telling of a story whose impact is already limited by natural shortcomings, because as dramatically promising as this story concept is, it's just so minimalist, with a scope of such little dynamicity that it can take only a couple hiccups in the establishment of resonance for reward value to be lost. When Greengrass' directorial tone goes empty, busily structured scenes focusing on anything from fast-pace FAA workings, to panic get on your nerves, while a number of scenes of overt meticulousness to the interpretation of approaches to a crisis situation defuse a sense of urgency, if not humanity.
As under-expository as the film is, it still manages to drag its feet something fierce, until it finds itself jarring between segments focusing on the doomed plane occupants and segments focusing on the Federal Aviation Administration's handling of the situation, due to its spending too much time with each segment, and not typically for the sake of exposition, but rather, for the sake of realist meditations upon the events so exhaustive that, in addition to getting monotonous, they leave storytelling to fall slave to, not tone, but structure. The subject matter is recognizable enough to begin with, but that does not excuse Paul Greengrass' script for its formulaic interpretation of this story, which deserves to not be so predictable, certainly not in its progression, but in its overall structure, which you have plenty of, or rather, more than enough time to dissect. Yeah, that was a drama which got too caught up in its action for anyone to care as much as they probably should have, and it was still a little boring, although that isn't to say that this film is that much more captivating or, well, thoroughly characterized.Īs effective as this thriller often gets to be as an intimate portrait on a great tragedy, issues regarding a human factor are prominent throughout the film, and they all start back with underdevelopment, which is eventually made up for by rich characterization, but a plague on the film for the longest time as an opponent to the distinguishing of this narrative. Man, even Oliver Stone held some blasted respect a couple months after this film came out, so you know that this film is going to watch its toes, lest it end up like "Pearl Harbor", because, you know, "Pearl Harbor" was much less respectful to the victims of the Pearl Harbor attacks than "Tora! Tora! Tora!". There's way too much turbulence going on in the "Bourne" movies, so one can only imagine how many vomit bags you're going to need on a crashing plane that makes you nervous enough because of which plane is being portrayed in this film. Well, Greengrass has always had something of a dry taste in action, so maybe we should be less worried about him getting carried away with spectacle when talking about subject matter as sensitive as 9/11, and more worried about his tastes in shaky cam. It's Paul Greengrass, so you know that you're in for action, action and even more action, which, you know, shouldn't be offensive in the least. Man, that's absolutely horrible, and I apologize for not helping myself, but hey, as of this review, it's been nearly thirteen years, so a lack of sensitivity isn't as nerve-racking as it was when this film came out, only five years after 9/11. Movies are $5 apiece, which is bad.Ladies and gentlemen, a firm contradiction to the classic statement, "Divided we fall, united we stand", because this thing is going down no matter what.
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