Great music and the action is well portrayed and filmed.

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2008)

I enjoyed Black Hawk Down: the music is excellent and really sets the tenor and tone of the film; and the action is well portrayed by the cast and well filmed and very exciting, though it do go on for a bit too long without a break for this old man and was a lot to take in. It is seemingly very realistic; although I am not qualified to make any kind of judgment on its actual realism as I have never been in action, thankfully, and had to fight in battle. However, I will say that that is an objective of many, if not most, war films: seeming true to real war to a lay audience who have never been in action and seen battle and are not likely to. The lighting effects in filming the battle sequences, too, were very good and effective, though at times the film's visual tones did remind me of looking through lightly tinted sunglasses at dusk. Overall, though, I did very much enjoy watching Black Hawk Down.