I watched the whole thing.

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2002)

I watched the whole thing. Never once did I dissect the camera work. Never once did I count the number of bullets hitting Somalians and compare them to the number of bullets hitting Americans. I sat in my chair for the entire length of the film...and couldn't take my eyes off of it. BLACK HAWK DOWN was not about characters. It was not about the entirety of what happened the entire time the U.S. occupied the country. This movie was about one incident from that conflict. This movie told that story very well. Ridley Scott does an excellent job orchestrating how the story is told, and has made a great film.