Mindless macho action flick pretending to have something to say...

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2003)

Here is Black Hawk Down in a nutshell: nameless, faceless white guys shoot at nameless, faceless black guys for two and a half hours. That's it. We're talking ZERO character development here.
The best war movies (Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket) always tempered scenes of combat with a moral regret at human beings being forced to kill each other. Not the case with Black Hawk Down. There is actually little to differentiate this film and many of the mindless macho Vietnam revenge fantasy flicks of the mid 1980's.
Why it garnered such acclaim upon it's release is something I can't understand....