Modern warfare at it's Most Brutal

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2002)

This movie is a disturbing picture of how our understrength men fought off thousands of a warlords' somalians when we first went there as on humanitarian mission. It, very powerfully showed it's waste. You did not get to know the characters like you did in Saving Private Ryan but the performances and the gritty realism was excellently portrayed. This film will make you mad. It sure did me. How could our then President and Les Aspin send in our men without tank or other support. More blame should have been placed on them for this. It was their follies. What really got me mad was we went in peace to feed the hungry, when a warload did not care enough for his own people and gunned them down. The deaths of our men is too high a cost to feed a bunch of ungrateful heathens anywhere in the world and not just Africa, who hate us anyways. I did enjoy the scene when the Somalie kid accidentally shoots his father when he tried to hit a ranger who had slipped. Too bad the ranger didn't off the kid, since he was a combatant. The movie was powerful, gripping and mad you mad emotionally because we still really haven't learned it's lessens. This movie makes you feel that the next time we think about helping a nation like that, we should just let the bastard's starve and save our own men from the potential dangers. A very brutal film about a brutal incident. Four stars for the grim portrayal.