I've seen worse

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2003)

As an anti-war film it certainly did its job.
As an anti-American film it could have been better.
As a pro-American military film it almost worked.
As an inditment of the Clinton Administration it lacked a little. Willie Jeff didn't want to send armor into Somalia because that would have "sent the wrong message." So instead we sent home body bags. This happened six months after Waco, and he should have been impeached then.
As an American flag-waver it was an abysmal failure.
As pure entertainment it was sublime.
As history, well, they left out a few things, like the Somali's planning of the encirclements, using the trapped soldiers as bait.
As a demonstration of the hopelessness of our doing anything in Somalia other than standing around and watching the country murder itself it did a great job.
So it's a lot of things at a lot of levels.