War at its grittiest and most breath taking

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2002)

For roughly 80 minutes of this film, I have never seen this much action, weapons and deaths depicted so emphatically. Ridley Scott made a gem of a film, one that is powerful in its imagery than its dialogue and other aspects. This proves to be one of the few films with bad dialogue I actually liked, simply because of the detail and care placed onto the technical side of the film. The cinematography was quite stunning, even though it was thinly guised as your typical action-movie cinematography.
While I felt Josh Hartnett was WAYYY out of his element, the other actors were all exceptional. Ewan McGregor and Ewan Bremner, both known as the druggies from Trainspotting, were quite convincing in their roles as Army Rangers. Tom Sizemore proved he is the ultimate bad ass when it comes to war movies, and the likes of William Fichtner, Eric Bana and Sam Shepard proved to be worthy background characters. The best war film to come out since The Thin Red Line.