Too long

Rating: 6/10 (3 August 2014)

Very little small talk or geopolitical considerations, we get here into the subject right off the bat : combat. And this battle is very captivating because it is very tense and very well directed, empathy builds up rapidly towards these soldiers you just want to see get back safe and sound.
But the thing is that, assaults, gun shots and explosions become tedious and headache-inducing after 2h15. It also would have been more judicious to reduce the number of protagonists because it is sometimes very hard to identify them in the heat of the action.
As for the cast, it is incredibly dense but this pile of fancy names, in the context of the film, turns out to be kind of pointless.
Ultimately, Black Hawk Down is just a vast street fight, surely very well filmed, but too long and totally unproductive.