Good war movie.

Rating: 9/10 (5 October 2002)

This movie is simply about the skirmishes between US soldiers and Somali militias on October 3, 1993. On that day US Rangers and Delta Force were sent deep into the hostile city of Modgadishu to capture General Aidid's top aids. What was suppose to be a half an hour mission but things went wrong and the ordeal lasted nearly one day. The movie portrayed the battle very realistic and accurate. Good pictures, and sound effects really put you in the heat battle. It was almost as good as the begining and end battles from Saving Private Ryan. The only thing that wasn't real is that Modgadishu have smaller builings, more trees, and less sandy. But that isn't important. The character development here are decent. Sometimes they can be a little dry. I didn't have a sense of conncection with them or felt sad when they die like I did in Saving Private Ryan. I guessed that's what happen when Ridley Scott tried to focus on too many people at the same time. The only character that I understand and felt for was Hoot played by Eric Bana. He was really good in this movie. It was very emotional at the ending scene when he said: "When I go home people ask me, 'Why do you do it man? What are you some kind of war junkie?' and I won't say a damn thing because they wouldn't understand...they wouldn't understand it's about the men next to them."
Overall this is a very good war movie, to me it came in third after Saving Private Ryan and Glory. What I like about it was not a cliche, flag-waving, glorifying war heros flick such as Pearl Harbor and We Were Soldiers. Black Hawk Down simply tell a true story about a group of guys who were in a deep sh*t situation that not in hell anyone else would want to be in. The movie made it clear that the soldiers weren't fighting because they were heros or because they were patriotic. But because they were fighting for survival and each other's lives. I recommend that you should not miss this movie, it must be seen.