Overwhelming

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2002)

That's pretty much what I thought of it. Overwhelming and shocking.
Listen, I'm sick of tose who say that it's unrealistic, I'm sure that at least 99 per cent of those who say so have never been to combat or enlisted armed forces or even shot a weapon. This is the closest I've been to combat and hope to be, so then I can tell you that Ridley Scott did a terrific job with this movie where I felt I was another Delta shootting with my rifle.

About comparing BHD and SPR, you're right: that's not possible because BHD is so much better than SPR. And more gory (SPR didn't have an artery operation, a severed finger and a half a torso lieing on the battlefield). SPR had TOO many patriotic stuff, and BHD only has US (I refuse to use the word 'American') flags, small ones, on the soldiers BDU's, that's a good thing.
BDH has, also, what most war movies should (but don't) have:

Be based on a real war operation (Normandy or Guadalcanal are OK) - Have A LOT of characters: and you shouldn't know either their ranks or names. They all carry the same weapons and dress alike. I say it 'cos I can tell you all the names of the squad on Ryan's. - Focus only on the battle: when somebody's shootting at you with an AK 47 or RPG I don't think they start telling each other why they love their wives or what happened when his father left home many years ago. And check it out, the only woman who appears on screen isn't on it for more than 5 seconds.

Giving a deeper analysis on the Rangers or Deltas as normal peoplewould have just ruined the movie. It makes it better when you concentrate on the battle. The political side of the operation is thankfully only the kind of 'what a hell are we doing here' or 'you cannot change the world this way'. It gives some credit to the Somalis as people, though I've seen what they did with the 61 crew and it was pretty horrible. The acting was fair specially Sizemore, and the few funny stuff ok. The action scenes are really good although there seems to be nothing that looks like a shrapnel, mostly coming from the RPG's. But (yeah, I have a complaint) there is one thing that doesn'tmake sense: i've heard that the cassualties from the somali side where from 1000 to 10000. So where the hell are those 500 Somalis that didn't get killed?
OK, I've said enough. Basically I say Go BHD, Down with SPR, the most overestimated film ever. This is THE war film, watch it's good from beggining to end. 11/10