A great, realistic and gritty movie.

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2004)

"We got a Blackhawk down!" This is a great film of modern combat and it shows just how tough urban combat is for the modern day soldier. The individual scenes are gritty and coarse, showing the deadly violence of the modern-day combat environment in a city where there are friends and far too many foes to shake the proverbial stick at. Individual soldiers come off as individuals with their own personalities. The movie fully shows the problems of civilians in Washington trying to dictate how the front-line soldiers fight and what they fight with. The commander wanted to take tanks and APCs (M-1s and M-2s), but the politicians back in Washington limited the troops to nothing more than up-armored Hummers, and that was a major mistake indeed.