Truly Remarkable

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2005)

I happen to be a big war movie buff and this film is high up there with Saving Private Ryan and Platoon. Ridley Scott is great at capturing the action and does not fail in this film.
Josh Hartnett is Matt Eversmann, a soldier stuck in the war of Somalia in 1993. Him and his fellow soldiers are sent in to expose of two top Somalian generals when the mission goes haywire and every soldier is on the run shooting everything they see. The amazing thing about this movie has got to be the death count. After the drop in you could probably count a soldier or Somalian dying every 5 seconds. Some of the deaths can be graphic so those with the faint of heart please step away. After a whole day has gone by the battle still rages on and Josh Hartnett is left with about 15 men after 123 dropped in.
The only downside in this movie is that you don't really get to know these characters. I mean here are some of the top names in Hollywood and some of them die in the first 40 minutes.
This earns a solid A. Definitely recommended for those war buffs out there.