Was that really it?

Rating: 6/10 (30 October 2002)

I had been looking forward to watching this movie, and my girlfriend actually asked if we could watch it together. She fell asleep after about an hour or so, while i forced myself to watch the rest of the movie.
What is the main problem with this movie? The camera work is great (which isn't really a surprise... I guess Ridley knows what he wants...) The acting is okay, the fx are good. The problem in my opinion is that there is little to no plot through the movie. We get maybe 15-25 minutes of plot and story explanation, and the rest of the movie a lot of soldiers are running around shooting black guys and being shot at. As we are not told ANYTHING about the soldiers, I really did not care who got shot. We have McGregor and one of the helicopter pilots... the rest of the soldiers looked the same to me. And when they were running around the city, I had NO idea where they were or how long apart they were.
I understand that a lot of people will get angry when reading this, but I mean no disrespect to the 19(?) American soldiers who died in Somalia... and maybe we should remember that thousands of non-Americans died during the war?
This movie is highly overrated... If you want a good movie on war, see Full Metal Jacket or maybe Enemy At The Gates.... Don't waste your time with this "all-action-no-plot"-war movie