One of Ridleys Best Efforts

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2016)

Ridley Scott is an amazing director with over 3 decades worth of movies to his name and Black Hawk Down is not only one of my favourite war films it's also one of my favourite Movies by Ridley Scott. For one despite the fact that the story being told in this movie is quite gruesome and ugly it's very entertaining I could watch this movie anytime it's able to honour to suffering of its characters while still being able to entertain the viewer and make them want to come back and watch the movie multiple times. The way they tell the story is by just showing the brutality of war not putting focus on a romance or one character in particular but showing them all just showing what the war has done to these men and the people they are trying to protect. This is one of the best directed movies I have ever seen it cuts at just the right moments the framing is perfect the action sequences are all perfectly handled and should have gotten Ridley Scott an Oscar for his efforts. While you probably couldn't tell all the characters apart the actors who play them all given terrific performances with Ewan McGregor and William Fichner probably being the standouts. You've still got Tom Hardy here in one of his earliest roles he's not in the movie for long but does the best with his limited screen time and the same goes for Orlando Bloom. My next point is one that is both a positive and a negative for the movie, the lack of character development. This adds a bit to the movie for what Scott is trying to accomplish he just wants to show the brutality of war and having to spend time developing its many characters would subtracts from that greatly. But it detracts from the movie as well as this movie has got a lot of characters and because of there lack of development as I previously said you can't really tell them apart. If your hoping for subtlety Black Hawk Down is not the movie for your u but if you love War movies or just Entertaining movies Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down is definitely the movie for you it's one of his finest films and one of the many for which he will be remembered for. My Ratings: 94%-A