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Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. Based on author Mark Bowden's bestselling account of the battle, Scott's riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic. --Jeff Shannon
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Cast, Great Film.,
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This review is from: Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Let me begin with my age. I'm 19. All opinions are that of the ordinary teenage movie buff.Let me begin with, WOW. I loved this movie and i'm sure others will too. Black Hawk Down was action-packed and quite emotional at times. Favorite part of the movie has to be the cast... Orlando Bloom, Josh Hartnett, Jeremy Piven, Eric Bana and my favorite in the movie, William Fitchner from prison break! Blu-Ray Review. Great blu-ray. Top notch video after the first few scenes (YIKES), and the BEST audio I've heard to date and I own plenty of blu-rays. Highly Recommend this movie!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Plotless, characterless, brilliant!,
By Anvil Echoes (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
I remembering seeing this shortly after it was first released and not being that impressed. My central criticisms were that it lacked characterisation (indeed I couldn't even tell who was who apart from Eric Bana and Ewan McGregor!) and lacked plot. You could argue that a film based on a real and chaotic incident was always going to lack plot - but that is the skill of a screenwriter: to create plot where none seems to exist.I recently rewatched it on blu-ray and was blown away (pun unintended). My gripes about plot and characters still stand, but I now appreciate this is not what the film is about. Instead Ridley Scott has created an almost documentary-like movie about the chaos, fear, futility and heroism of war by putting the viewer right in the middle of the action. This is film making as immersion experience (all the more so if you have a surround sound system). It's stunning and visceral. Large sections of the film are created from montage (no wonder editor Pietro Scalia won an Oscar) and there is a blaze of gunfire and blood rendered all the more realistic by shooting with the shutter open. This must rank as one of the most accurate war movies ever made - light years away from pictures like John Wayne's 'The Green Berets'. The special features are a mixed bag. There are some deleted scenes and History Channel documentaries. What I was most looking forward to was the 'Essence of Combat' documentary as I've found previous Ridley Scott 'Makings of...' to set the standard. This one was a bit disappointing. There's not enough of Sir Ridley himself and it could have done with a prune. They seem to get snippets of the whole cast saying the same thing: 'we wanted to honor the real men', 'it was like being a kid playing with guns' etc. It becomes tedious: I got it the first couple of times! Finally, the one scene that sticks in my mind more than any other is the moment where the two Delta Force snipers volunteer to drop into the streets of 'Mog' to protect the crashed Black Hawk even though they know they probably won't make it out alive. True heroism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the better War Movies Hollywood has produced,
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Actually, I purchased this DVD for a friend who said he had never seen it and arelative recommended he buy it. It was a good movie, well written and the acting was first-rate. I am not a war movie buff so if I gave it a glowing report you must use your own opinion. Buy it and see for yourself, is my recommendation. Don't begin to criticize me for my taste as it is only my opinion.
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