If it weren't for all the phrases...

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2002)

Oh yes.
This is good. You have a claustrophobic feeling through all of it. You can feel the anonymous enemy everywhere, behind you and in front of you. You are sitting in a cinema, but you are taking part. It's a good war movie with Sam Shepard as the General leading the battle and also (in many ways) leading the acting.
It is said that the Somalians are unpersonalized and that might be true, but that's the way they are looked upon from the main characters, which are the American soldiers. There are sometimes to many Somalians dead from one shot. It's a kind of James Bond heroism, but you can take that too. But in the last half hour the empty phrases are too many, there is too much bravery in the last words from dying soldiers. Where is too much sentimentality and too much, unfortunately, dullness.