The next Saving Private Ryan

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2002)

Ebert and Roeper said this; "If you take the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and Multiply it by ten, you have the war sequence for Black Hawk Down.
I have seen many Hollywood type war movies like Pearl Harbour, and I hated the element of love that each of them contained. I don't mean to exterminate it altogether, rather to minimize it to give it an existing portion in each individual character.
Black Hawk Down, on the other hand, exemplified the sort of determined love that each soldier feels when they go on the battlefield.
Looking at the movie as a whole, it was brilliantly conveyed as an American struggle in Somalia. All the necessary emotions were illustrated, and carried out in an all-round exceptional attempt to re-create the war image from soldier to soldier.
If there were more war stories created like this, we, as 'civilians' would receive a much clearer image of loved ones as they fight someone else's battle.