A very realistic, bloody war movie. Is this accurate at all?

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2004)

I wonder where I was when I first saw this movie in 2004. I totally don't remember it. I just watched it again, a few days ago. And I was going to submit my rating on here, then I was surprised that I already rated this movie.
Anyway, I was wondering where Mohamed Farrah Aidid is now. And I found a news report from BBC, with the title of "Warlord thumbs down for Somalia film", if you search for it online, you can read it yourself. It seems that what we are seeing is a Hollywood version of that story. Could it be accurate as some viewers claimed on here? Were they there when it happened? After all, did they read the news directly from the Somali news agents? I doubt it. As the warlord told the BBC reporter, "I don't recall myself that somebody has interviewed me in this regard and I have never given neither written nor verbal authorisation to anybody."
If they are doing a movie about someone in the US or Europe, I am sure that they will have plenty of lengthy interviews with that person. This is indeed the typical US arrogant attitude toward third world people.
There are always two sides to the same story. So you might be deeply moved by what you saw in this movie, but you don't really know how the Somali people think about that event? After all, only about 19 US soldiers died, while over 1,000 Somali people were killed. How would you feel if someone killed that many people in your very own city in your own country?
This movie is good entertainment for anyone who wants to see how soldiers fight in an urban setting, but just don't assume that everything you saw is all real.
The following was writing on 25 April 2004.
Even though I have never participated in any war activities, and I hope that i never will, I think that this movie has given us a very realistic powerful view on the cruel bloody war.
close to the end of the movie, it is emotionally shocking to see an old man holding a dead boy's body walking pass right in front of a war tank car. Whoever decide to put that scene in the movie did an excellent job of giving out the powerful message about the importance of peace.
For the first 30 minutes or so, there were several clues about the soldiers making wrong life decisions, because they thought that this mission would be easy and short. And I was also thinking the whole mission will probably be over in the next 30 minutes of the movie. I was wrong, the war was so dangerous, full of blood, full of chances of death. Even thought it is more than two hours long, I was complete clued to the screen.
The thing is that this real war all happened when I was living happily in the US. the soldiers were killed, the local people were fighting for their own justice. it is a war that neither side wants to happen, but they defend for their own believes. and i wasn't even aware of it, like the rest of the people, we were just minding our own business. the war in Africa was only a gossip to most of us.
It is futuristic and ironic, when one of soldier mentioned that the war in that African country was much worse than the war happened in Iraq. Comparing with the war that is ongoing in Iraq, what this movie is shown is only a tiny fraction of the cruelty of the modern wars, yet it is very powerful to give us the realistic view of what a war can bring.
I hope that everyone who watched this movie would come to realize that peace is the best solution that we can ever ask for.