Simply Refreshing

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2002)

When I got out of the movie theater on friday the 18th, i had a complete different view at wars in today's world.
The best wars movies out there( full metal jacket, platoon,apocalypse now, the thin red line, or even spielberg's very average film, saving private ryan) all concentrate on events that happened 60-35 years ago. But Black hawk down wasn't in 1945 but in 1992, the soldiers fighting during that movie aren't old or deceased but are in their thirties. In this war, there are no "bad guys", the soldiers only shoot when they get shot at in the first place. But most importantly, this movie will give an idea of what the american soldiers in Afganistan are doing right now. Like in this film, the ennemy is hiding, it comes out diguised like a normal citizen, and HE always strikes first.
Of course BLack hawk down isn't perfect, the movie can be very loud at some times and the action confusing. But please do yourself a favor, watch this movie, this is not history, this is YOUR reality.