One the greatest war movies ever made...

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2009)

I don't know how much of this is fact or fiction, but I can say as a audience member that this probably one of the most intense war movies I've ever seen. It has no political agenda, were the solider tries to Americanise the rebels or saves hundreds of innocents..It's simply about surviving.
The plot is the following. A group of elite soldiers arrive in SOmalia to capture a war lord, which is a success...However this is were the film only begins.
An entire city descends on the soldiers with RPG's and weapons, to stop them, leaving soldiers dead and wounded...And we witness their battle for survival...
The film is raw and intense, with some amazing shoot-outs that leave nothing to the imagination as soldiers are blown to pieces and shot to smithereens. We become attached to certain characters that will either die or become severely wounded.
I found the sequence were the Black Hawks fly over the city mesmerising, the black smoke that clouds the actions of the enemy, the roaring noises of the mob, the firing of the gun and recoil...
Personally I became attached to Eric Bana's character, Hoot as he tries to fight threw the enemy in order to save his comrades..
Simply one of the greatest war movies ever made...