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Description: Genre: War & Western - War / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: Ridley Scott / Actors: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor ... more
Black Hawk Down (2 DVDs) ... ... / DVD released 16 September, 2002 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL, Widescreen / Beginning with a quote from T.S. Elliott--"All our ignorance brings us closer to death"--the hope that Black Hawk Down will offer an intelligent war film to a world after September 11, 2001 is high. Based on a true story which led to a bestselling book, the film focuses on the 1993 American mission to Somalia which went terribly wrong. To a certain extent it succeeds with its opening promise, but all too quickly falls under the spell of American national pride--possibly the reason why the film was brought forward from its original release date. One might hope that with a British director, Ridley Scott, and a high percentage of British and Australian actors on board, Black Hawk Down would present an outsider's view on the American politics of war, but produced by the team who brought us Pearl Harbor the end result is a traditional American-Heroic war movie, relying more on special effects, gore and gun battles than character, emotion and politics. In its favour Black Hawk Down does make an attempt to represent the views of the Somalian people. In one of its strongest scenes, a high-powered Somalian gun seller states; "This is our war not yours", but by the end of the film it's clear that this is merely a token gesture towards a non-Western perspective on the conflict. Many American soldiers lost their lives during this battle, and this movie is a fine tribute to these amazing men in one of the first big-budget films to expose modern Warfare. As far as top billing goes, Josh Hartnett and Ewan McGregor hold no greater role than the rest of the cast. The standout performance comes from Ewen Bremner, who offers an unexpectedly comic turn against the bleak backdrop; but otherwise the limited character development highlights one of the film's main issues--that although these men are fighting for their country, when on the battlefield they stand together and no man is more important than any other (unless you're on the wrong side!). --Nikki Disney

Newest Review: ... story is basicaly lots of US soldies are sent to Somalia to capture a leader of the opposing army. One by one things start to ... more

 ... go wrong and soon the soldiers find themselves face to face with a lot of Somalis all armed and willing to do anything to kill the soldiers. Because of the graphic realistic nature of the film and the fact you know its a true story I got really involved and attached to the characters. It also strangely made me want to join the army. The special effects look great and although most of the actors are not that great they do a good enough job in this film. I would recomed this film to fans of action films, any ...more

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Release Date: 2002 - 09 - 16, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Premium Review Black Hawk Down (2 DVDs): It all looks so real (214 words)
by - written on 06/03/08 (Very useful, 9 readings)
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Black Hawk Down is a 2001 film by Ridley Scott. The story is based on the experience of American soldiers in the capital of Somalia Mogadishu. The soldiers are given a mission to capture a warlord. The plan goes wrong and when more soldiers are sent to rescue their colleagues under fire from the enemy things go mad, the soldiers come under fire from hosts of enemy combatants. I like this film. It is one of the best war films I have seen. The fight scenes look real. As the shoot out happens the cameras give a very close up of soldiers in distress and bullets ripping their bodies apart. There are no big characters in the film. Actors ...  Read the complete review

Andy.mack
Crowned Review We've Got A Blackhawk Down (928 words)
by - written on 18/01/06 (Very useful, 188 readings)
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One thing that doesn’t often appear in War films are defeats and mistakes made by American forces without retribution. In 2001, British director Ridley Scott got the go ahead to make a film based on the American’s actions in Somalia. With a true story to build the film around this had a lot of appeal upon its release at the cinema. With the backing of big time American producer Jerry Bruckheimer it seems the more surprising that a film portraying a military cock up by the American’s was backed so heavily by Hollywood. When the US soldiers are sent to Somalia to aid the U.N. peacekeeping operation in Mogadishu, Somalia during 1993. On the third of October 100 ...  Read the complete review

C_Padd
Crowned Review Black Hawk Down (2 DVDs): NIGHT STALKERS DONT QUIT (1138 words)
by - written on 05/02/02 (Very useful, 53 readings)
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It is early October 1993, Somalia in east Africa. The country has been the place for major problems; civil war and famine have wreaked the place and left several thousand civilians dead. The country is run by a series of local warlords, one of whom Mohammed Aidid Farrah has been taking food supplies from the red cross for his own use. The US Government did not like this, so sent the best of the best army troops to sort out the situation. They come up with a plan to get two of the warlords out of there in a quick hit and run attack. The whole thing should take less than an hour, but it goes wrong somehow. Black Hawk Down tells the real story behind an ...  Read the complete review

MurphEE
Crowned Review Black Day! Black Movie! (2109 words)
by - written on 21/01/02 (Very useful, 99 readings)
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In the past, I have always tended to avoid war films. You know the type of thing that you end up watching on a Sunday afternoon, John Wayne or some such hero overcoming massive odds to save the bridge, beach head or whatever. They are all the same, a couple of guys up against a massive force who have yet to learn how to shoot straight. Then along came all the 'Nam movies and they brought a realism to the genre that had not been there before. People were savagely killed without the time to deliver a few pithy words for the folk’s back home. You left the cinema thinking how lucky you were not to have had to go there. Then for a long time there was ...  Read the complete review

RedBen
Premium Review Black Hawk Down (2 DVDs): Budgie the helicopter this ain't (906 words)
by - written on 23/01/09 (Very useful, 158 readings)
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(Film only) Ridley Scott's 2001 movie tells the story of the Battle of Mogadishu, an attempt by American special forces units to abduct two senior members of the Somalian militia, lead by General Mohamed Aidid. For the soldiers involved the initial omens are far from positive: Mogadishu is a geometric, planned city, seemingly designed for the purpose of staging ambushes. It is also filled with an angry, dissident, and heavily armed populous. On the contrary, the US mission is hamstrung by a Washington politik that refuses the mission's overt need for widespread aerial and ground support. The mission, originally due to last no longer than an ...  Read the complete review

 
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