Black Hawk Down Drags On and On

Rating: 4/10 (18 February 2002)

Blah blah blah blah blah. 'Black Hawk Down' was a 15 minute story stretched out in to 2 and half hour production. The only mildly redeeming part of this movie was it's solid cinematography, which was largely stolen from other better war movies such as 'Apocalypse Now'. I had difficulty staying focused through the length of this movie, but let me say now that in general I despise war movies and find them as boring as growing grass, so let my bias be known. The characters were all stock and cliched yet somehow largely unlikeable, and ultimately unknown even at the end of this overly long snore-fest. The movie offers nothing new to the tired war genre and disgraces itself by adding American nationalism to a story that didn't really deserve any. It failed to capture most of the mistakes made by the American army during this operation and managed to somehow make it a story of great Americans (Pearl Harbour anybody?) All in all, 'Black Hawk Down' was a boring cliched movie that had nothing to say and very little direction.