OUTSTANDING!

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2002)

The first time I saw Black Hawk Down, I knew it was going to be a good movie because it's set on a true story. Ridley Scott did an outstanding job shooting this film and the cast did an excellent job showing the world the kind of camraderie that develops in ordinary men under desperate circumstances. I cried when it showed the deaths of American Soldiers, particularly Cpl. Smith who died in the arms of his comrades and saving their lives. This film shows the true meaning of war. It's not some John Wayne flick where the main characters don't die and war is glorious. This movie shows that people die in battle, nobody wins, and war is not glamorous. Although Black Hawk Down is portrayed as a Military Victory, it also shows that no one in this film is jumping up and down and celebrating that they survived, but they are tired, exhausted, hurt emotionally and physically, injured and in some cases killed. This movie shows what ordinary men do under extraordinary circumstances and shows what war really is. Hell. For that, I give Black Hawk Down a Ten. Outstanding!