The grittiest film since your mother recorded you eating dirt

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2002)

In all honesty, I never thought Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor could be topped for "America's Worst War Movie". Crap like that is a disgrace to the great war films of the world...from Grand Illusion ro Lawrence of Arabia, from All Quiet on the Western Front to Apocolypse Now.
But I was wrong. Black Hawk Down is everything a movie should not be...lacking in character, lacking in any message or style to compensate such lacking, and topped with a fast pace that gets us nowhere. Atleast Pearl Harbor can be viewed as "Ed Wood Film With a Budget 2" (sequel to Armageddon!), but Black Hawk Down had no ridiculousness to it. It was dry. I don't care if it honors our soldiers. If I were a soldier, I would not want to be honored by such a meaningless action flick.