Cinematography

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2005)

Black Hawk Down was wonderfully filmed and it pulls my attention from the beginning of the movie. The event is centered around the Civil War in Somalia and it captures the strife between Adid and the UN, but, sparing the first scene where Adid was holding food from the Somalians, the movie lacked to explain the Civil War situation in Somalia. After watching this video, I still do not understand how Adid got into power, how he managed this, and what he planned to do by starving the rest of the nation. Other than this, the movie was extremely entrancing, grabbing me by the nape and dragging me through a disaster of broken down houses, bullets, and RPG's. The cinematography is something to be commended. From the first scene in the movie, the pictures are very evocative. The movie opens with a brief description and a striking scene of the starvation in Somalia. Several other striking scenes focus on the condition of the Somalia people. The combat zones were filled with seemingly and vividly realistic gunfights. Deaths were also very realistic. The video was largely taken from the standpoint of the US Rangers. As the nature of being with this group the entire time one tends to side with the US Rangers.