Ridley Scott's boldest motion picture since Gladiator

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2014)

Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down is not only one of the best war movies ever made but it is also a great movie at the same time. The movie tells the horrific story about 123 U.S. soldiers who drop into Somalia to capture 2 top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and end up finding themselves in a desperate battle with the Somalis. The movie stars Josh Hartnett in the title role as Eversmann one of the soldiers who fought bravely in that war,And as Oliver Stone said in his second Oscar acceptance speech " That we learned nothing from the Vietnam War". Just like we learned nothing from the battle in Somalia,Director Ridley Scott really showed how he really felt bad for those soldiers that suffered the casualties of war. The movie compares to war classics such as Patton, Saving Private Ryan, The Deer Hunter, Platoon,From Here to Eternity,The Devil's Brigade, Heartbreak Ridge, and Flags of Our Fathers. Also the movie had the exact emotional impact as Saving Private Ryan because what Spielberg did with Saving Private Ryan was that he tried to show how bad the World War II was, But Scott does the exact same thing here but has nothing to do with the WWII topic.