Review Detail
9.4 5 10
(Updated: September 04, 2024)
Overall rating
9.2
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
9.0
Visual Editing
9.0
Narrative
9.0
Enjoyment
9.0
<div>This edit is a fascinating, in-depth look into a part of history that is somehow simultaneously over-emphasised and overlooked. The fusion of dramatic, historical, and first hand sources creates a compelling tension that draws you in and makes you anxious to find out what happens next (even though you already know!)
I only had a few issues with this edit. In the first half, the first-hand accounts of the events of the day are fairly sparse, so when they come in it's a little distracting and pulled me out of the drama. Similarly the narrator that pops up in the second half feels strange, and brings with him a shift to a more comedic ton of "Can you believe they did this?" which is an awkward change from the first half.
There were also a few individual moments I had issues with:
At 1:21:15 one of the United 93 passengers is wrestling with a terrorist and breaks his neck. This felt very campy and Hollywood-y to me.
Similarly, at 1:22:00 when bashing down the door someone shouts "If we don't get in there, we'll all die!" which is a really dumb line considering that they're already bashing down the door and don't need encouraging, and they presumably know the stakes of the situation.
At 1:25:00 the audio fades out and doesn't fade back in in time leaving a short silence and cutting off part of a sentence. At 1:26:30 the cut to a dramatization feels very out of place. It's a HD 16:9 movie scene sandwiched in between a lot of SD 4:3 and 21:9 news footage, it cuts in pretty harshly after a fade to black, it's unclear where it is set and who the characters are, it's the only time in the edit that the possibility of preventing 9/11 is brought up and the characters are never seen again. I'd recommend cutting this scene.
At 1:34:40 Dick Chaney whispers to George Bush "... for COG, Continuity Of Government", the way this line is said makes GB come across like an idiot being puppeteered by Chaney. I know this is a popular image of Bush, but I'm not sure how accurate it is that he wouldn't know basic things. I'd recommend cutting the word COG if possible.
At 1:37:40 the editing seems to convey the idea that the other members of the Bin Laden family in the US we're a part of or complicit in the 9/11 attacks. I don't know if this was the editor's intention, or what the real positions of these people were, but it seems like an odd implication, since removing them from the US would be a pretty sensible move if they were innocent, and borderline conspiracy if the FBI knew that they weren't.
Finally at 2:06:00 there is a freeze frame on an introduction that lasts a little too long, and made me think my player had frozen.
This edit id definitely worth watching if you have even a passing interest in history, and it's probably the best piece of 9/11 media I've ever scene (although that's not a long list) and it I was struck by how familiar the atmosphere from the era of my early childhood felt, and how different it was to today.</div>
I only had a few issues with this edit. In the first half, the first-hand accounts of the events of the day are fairly sparse, so when they come in it's a little distracting and pulled me out of the drama. Similarly the narrator that pops up in the second half feels strange, and brings with him a shift to a more comedic ton of "Can you believe they did this?" which is an awkward change from the first half.
There were also a few individual moments I had issues with:
At 1:21:15 one of the United 93 passengers is wrestling with a terrorist and breaks his neck. This felt very campy and Hollywood-y to me.
Similarly, at 1:22:00 when bashing down the door someone shouts "If we don't get in there, we'll all die!" which is a really dumb line considering that they're already bashing down the door and don't need encouraging, and they presumably know the stakes of the situation.
At 1:25:00 the audio fades out and doesn't fade back in in time leaving a short silence and cutting off part of a sentence. At 1:26:30 the cut to a dramatization feels very out of place. It's a HD 16:9 movie scene sandwiched in between a lot of SD 4:3 and 21:9 news footage, it cuts in pretty harshly after a fade to black, it's unclear where it is set and who the characters are, it's the only time in the edit that the possibility of preventing 9/11 is brought up and the characters are never seen again. I'd recommend cutting this scene.
At 1:34:40 Dick Chaney whispers to George Bush "... for COG, Continuity Of Government", the way this line is said makes GB come across like an idiot being puppeteered by Chaney. I know this is a popular image of Bush, but I'm not sure how accurate it is that he wouldn't know basic things. I'd recommend cutting the word COG if possible.
At 1:37:40 the editing seems to convey the idea that the other members of the Bin Laden family in the US we're a part of or complicit in the 9/11 attacks. I don't know if this was the editor's intention, or what the real positions of these people were, but it seems like an odd implication, since removing them from the US would be a pretty sensible move if they were innocent, and borderline conspiracy if the FBI knew that they weren't.
Finally at 2:06:00 there is a freeze frame on an introduction that lasts a little too long, and made me think my player had frozen.
This edit id definitely worth watching if you have even a passing interest in history, and it's probably the best piece of 9/11 media I've ever scene (although that's not a long list) and it I was struck by how familiar the atmosphere from the era of my early childhood felt, and how different it was to today.</div>
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