Greatest War Movie Ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2002)

Black Hawk Down is by far the best war movie ever made. The film moves along so well that even though it is two hours of gunfights it completely keeps your attention. And the movie is SO realistic! I felt tired and drained coming out of the theater when I saw it because you actually get the feeling you're in the middle of the battle. It's also realistic in the sense that not every shot an American soldier took killed a Somali, ya know? Also, everything that happens in the movie is true. Even the line Cliff Wolcott (Jeremy Piven) says as his Black Hawk is going down ("Hey Bull you gonna pull the PCLs off line or what?") was what the real Cliff Wolcott said as the Black Hawk was going down. The real John Waddell was a bookworm and was always reading in the hanger, and in the movie we see Waddell (Ian Virgo) reading before they go out on the Mogadishu mission. The movie's just real accurate like that. And like every sentence or line that we know was said during the real battle (I know this from reading the true, fact book of Black Hawk Down) was in the movie. To me that's what makes the movie even better, the realism and the accuracy. You don't really get TOO attached to the characters, but that in no way ruins the movie. Also, the ending of the movie was done very well (Josh Hartnett talking to a fallen comrade).
So all in all, I consider this to be the BEST war movie ever made and this is definately my favorite movie. This movie doesn't make you happy, but it makes you proud. It's an excellent movie. 11/10