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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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Black Hawk Down is the action packed true harrowing account of US Military action in Mogadishu, Somalia. As part of a UN Peacekeeping force, a group of elite US soldiers undertake a mission to abduct several top lieutenants of a Somalian warlord to stop the civil war that has been tearing the country apart. The carefully planned mission goes terribly wrong, resulting in the US military's single biggest firefight since Vietnam. From famed action producer Jerry Bruckheimer and acclaimed action director Ridley Scott.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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WOW !! Best war film i have seen in a long, long time. Fast paced stuff with great action scenes.
A well planned 'snatch and grab' mission turns into a bloodbath, as first one and then two U.S Blackhawk helicopters are brought down by Somali soldiers serving their warlord (who's name was something like Iidad). Things go horribly wrong and a group of elite rangers/delta force troops are effectively cut off in the middle of a hostile city in which everybody from grandmothers to toddlers seem to own an AK47 or RPG.
I sat on the edge of my seat throughout, and i can't say i've done that many times in the last few years (apart from 2003 when we won the rugby, that isn't likely to be repeated in 2007 i fear) WATCH THIS FILM !!!!
A well planned 'snatch and grab' mission turns into a bloodbath, as first one and then two U.S Blackhawk helicopters are brought down by Somali soldiers serving their warlord (who's name was something like Iidad). Things go horribly wrong and a group of elite rangers/delta force troops are effectively cut off in the middle of a hostile city in which everybody from grandmothers to toddlers seem to own an AK47 or RPG.
I sat on the edge of my seat throughout, and i can't say i've done that many times in the last few years (apart from 2003 when we won the rugby, that isn't likely to be repeated in 2007 i fear) WATCH THIS FILM !!!!
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I wasn't a fan of war movies, having found them too much 'Hollywood' and not enough truth. Black Hawk Down doesn't fit this category at all. It's a visceral, non-stop, brutal account of what must have seemed like hell on earth. After seeing the movie I read the book and was both amazed and pleased to see that the movie did actually follow the book wherever possible, with little glamourisation added to appease the hollywood action movie buff.
For those of us fortunate enough to have never been in a situation like that, I can only guess that Black Hawk Down gives you some sense of what it must have been like. Barely halfway through the movie I found myself glancing at my watch, not through boredom, but because my heart had been steadily racing for the past 40 minutes and I wondered when the roller-coaster ride of action and horror was actually going to ease off. It doesn't, not until the very end and even then you're left with a sense that it's still waiting to pounce.
Black Hawk Down is not brutal or blood-thirsty just for the hell of it, it aims to depict the truth. Judging by the fact that the US military have apparently made the book compulsory reading for their soldiers, I think you can judge for yourself how accurate this movie is.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of the best war movies ever made,by one of the greatest film makers ever...Ridley Scott,Visually stunning,this true story of what modern combat must be like,for these young men,thrown in at the deep end.Their only consideration...stay alive,look after your friends & get home alive.
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A response to the critics
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Published 16 months ago by Arun
Amazing film.
To be honest you dont need a long review on this film. I don't think there's anything atall wrong with this film. I've seen it no end of times and I'm still not bored of it! Read more
Published 16 months ago by Brady Chalk
A must see
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