shocking

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2002)

i'm going to blunt, the main reason i went to this film was because of Orlando Bloom, yes I know thats pathetic! after he got injured, i settled down to watch what i thought would be a good film, and that would tell me what happened on that mission. but i was wrong...
usually i can sit through blood and gore, same as my dad, but both of us were nearly sick by what we saw, y was that on a 15 certificate? a man's torso with the guts spilling out the end, a thumb shot off, a man driving a truck with glass in his face and Tom Sizemore's character directing him around the streets of Somalia, then the driver with the unexploded rocket in him as well as the man who got stoned and beaten to death at the second crash site. yuck is all i can say. although this was a true story and not supposed to be funny, im glad that i found some humourous elements in it - the donkey, the bow-legged guy who was running and Tom Sizemore directing the blinded driver, though i think i was the only one laughing in the cinema!! the actors chosen to play the parts where really well cast, Josh Hartnett and Ewen McGregor particularly, though i think Tom Sizemore could end up being type-cast - he was in Saving Private Ryan as well.
all in all, a good, informative shocking film, but i wouldn't like to see it again, i can only sit through that amount of blood and guts once!
7/10