Review

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2005)

I recently saw a copy of Black Hawk Down with only the knowledge that it covered the U.S.'s involvement in the events that took place in Mogadishu, Somalia. After seeing the movie for myself I must say that I was highly impressed. Director Ridley Scott did a great job depicting the gruesome realities of war. Throughout the movie we are presented with various characters, most of which are strongly developed. What impressed me the most about the film was just how many people they got to act out the Somali attack. There are many scenes in which the viewer sees hundreds of Somali with weapons rushing down streets towards the stranded American troops. The fighting was very realistic and made the horrors of war all the more clear, at least for me. With a long running time, the movie does a great job of depicting the sequence of events that occurred before the attack, during it, and after it. All in all I would recommend this movie to anyone interested in War and foreign affairs. It does an excellent job of depicting the idea that the U.S. is not always as strong as it thinks it is.