leohaverty Reviews

United 93 (2006)

The Best film depicting a harrowing tragedy.

[16 November 2023]

What gets me about this film is the final scene. Passengers you most likely never met before, had become a team into trying to make sure people could get off this hijacked plane alive. Their confidence, planning, and quick thinking gave them the chance to fight back some of the terrorists. At this point, you think "Oh hey, maybe it's gonna be a different, they could win this!" Then it gets to the point where theres a hijacker blocking the way to the cockpit, who desperately fights back, but ends up with a broken neck by one of the passengers. And finally, the most gut wrenching part, is when they finally made it into the cockpit to get ahold of the controls, but that terrorist pilot just wouldn't let go. And you feel the desperacy of the passengers fighting back to just pull up, but no matter how hard they tried, or how much you tension and hope was in that scene, you knew that this was history, and you knew what would happen.

In a long time, I've watched many sad films. The Shawshank redemption, green mile. But nothing made me more sad and heartbroken about this film. I haven't cried in a while. But I guess my streak has just gone back to zero...

I can't rate this out of 10. All I can say is, in general, this film is the best 9/11 movie out there.

Chernobyl (2019)

Horrifying Phenomenon

[23 May 2023]

The Chernobyl accident of 1986 is considered to be one of the most horrifying disasters known to man. And the phenomenal depiction of it's horrifying and graphic nature made it almost impossible for it to be considered an "alright" show.

When I first watched Chernobyl, (Was around 14 at the time), I was very impressed with it's work and it's accuracy of the dramatic events of the firefighters, the power plant's workers and Valery Legasov (Jared Harris was phenomenal as him). It has to be the first show that I had ever felt "scared" in my life. It's extremely magnificent and couldn't be made to a more better depiction.

The graphic nature of the show is what really glued my eyes to the TV, I just love how accurate the graphic nature was in the show, especially when one of the worker's faces were gone. And their radiated burns on their body melting their skin, my god...I felt like I was honoured to watch this show. It's still incredibly sad to think that's what actually happened to the people in the show, and to think that children, mothers and fathers had to leave their homes to what they believed was temporary, but after like 37 years? Not a chance, Chernobyl itself is STILL dangerously reactive to this day.

Probably me favourite episode of the entire series was the last one (Vichnaya Pamyat), their take on what the explosion looked in Chernobyl made that episode probably the best one, but it was not only the explosion that earnt the episode's "Top-rated" title.

The dramatic finale of the series was the real tear-jerker for many audiences, especially the episode's EPILOGUE showing the actual facts of Chernobyl's fate and it's victims and survivors. When your man Valery Khodemchukk's picture appeared and when you just read that text saying he never got out and is still in the debris, lying dead, it's gives you the sense of chills to know about THAT man's fate.

The sense of relief I got when I found out those diver's STILL SURVIVED! (2 are still alive today) diving into Chernobyl when it was currently having it's disaster. But it's still sad to acknowledge that a lot of those people who sacrificed for Chernobyl never went home to see their families.

10/10 A f***ing phenomenal show.