worst film of all time?????? yes

Rating: 1/10 (27 April 2002)

this film is truly terrible, and a massive disappointment considering it was directed by ridley scott. the thing that annoyed me most about it was the racism. all good war films either show both sides of the story or acknowledge that the 'enemies' are real people. this film does neither. throughout the film, the americans are portrayed as heroes of democracy. why? their job is to replace one corrupt warlord with another who happens to be pro-american. after the americans fail in their mission they are still treated as heroes... the fact that they lost is not mentioned. or is their success measured by the number of somalians they killed? in this respect they did very well, killing over a thousand people, including several innocent civillians. these people are mentioned only as a footnote to the 18 american deaths? 18!.......its not very much compared to 1000 is it? but then of course the americans were 'heroes'. there are few films that i genuinely hate but this is one of them. if you haven't seen it, don't.