Please, Bruckhemier...call it a day!

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2002)

I almost ran out of the theater when I saw that Bruckheimer had produced this movie, but alas, it was too late. As a war movie, this was appallingly banal. As an action movie, it pounds the audience for over two hours with no real purpose and no satisfying (good OR bad)resolve in the end. Can't believe Ridley Scott was behind this mess...I cared for these characters about as much as I care for a piece of lint. The dialog was laughably predictable and unrealistic (as echoed by my younger brother -- a Navy Seal) and character development didn't seem to be on the to-do list for the film-makers. Please, Mr. Bruckheimer, do not attempt to have anything to do with war movies EVER again, OK? Your only talent is obviously with ultra Hollywood shtick, with which you don't do very well either. Blood and guts and neat-o 5th grade computerized bullets do not a good war movie make. You walk out with no real idea of what happened in Somalia, and worst of all, you could really care less. Worst movie of the year, by far. You'd be better off watching Barney reruns. How is it possible that this movie is receiving accolades!? Almost every one in the sold out theater I saw it in booed at the end.