'Black Hawk Down' needs no rescue...

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2003)

Black Hawk Down is without a doubt one of the best if not THE best portrayal of modern combat. It is so much different than Saving Private Ryan - which focussed on the rather uninteresting characters - yet it's better.
BHD is focussed on the event. I'm surprised it didn't do so well at the european box office(although it didn't do that bad). It was critically well received. All the downsides (there were very little) featured in the reviews in Europe were the same as the ones in the States. There is no flag-waving BUT: THERE"S NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! and 'IT'S A SOMALI-SHOOT-EM-UP'.
I get a little angry when I hear that. Why won't they understand it's NOT about the characters. We don't want to know if one of the soldiers is a schoolteacher like in SPR!!!ITS ABOUT THE EVENT!!! ITS ABOUT HOW THEY DIED not HOW THEY LIVED!!!And as for the somali-shoot-em-up; That's what it WAS!!! more than 1000 somali's were KILLED!!! OK? So basically this movie has no bad aspects. I did however discover one tiny mistake in the sound editing. I don't remember exactly but there was a scene where - I believe it was Twombley - is running towards the rest of the men during prayer and you can see impacts of bullets on the ground yet we don't hear gunfire. Tiny mistake... Overall this movie is better than any other war movie I've ever seen... It would have been a worthy nomination at the Academy Awards. To my knowledge it only fell a few votes short of the 5th place at the Best Picture award...(I don't think this was official but still...) I bet it would have been much higher in the 250 chart if it had been...