ridiculous

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2002)

To see this movie on the top 250 Movies of All Time is just ridiculous. The first 20 minutes is pretty nice. The breathtaking helicopter shots flying over Mogadishu, the shot of the Muslim praying before the orange sized sun setting in the ocean, these are great images. After that it's non stop 90 minutes of people getting blown to shreds. How many helicopters going down and people getting shot, how many people got blown to pieces and had their intestines spraying everywhere shots can one throw into one movie? I had to see that to figure out that war and violence is pointless?! They forgot to spend part of there 18 gazzillion dollar budget and get script or a story, not to mention original ideas, concepts or perspectives(see Three Kings if you want to see what this movie was trying to be and failed); they spent it all on the cinematography, film and squinty pretty boy actors. This doesn't make a movie good though. One of the most soul-less movies I have ever seen. Why people continue to pack theatres and pay 9 dollars a ticket for this movie or movies like this is beyond me. I need to stop going to the multiplex. I'm in a bad mood because of this. What was the purpose of this movie anyway ? I wasn't feeling it.