War's Futility and Carnage

Rating: 9/10 (22 January 2002)

War is bad. Everyone knows that. This movies tells us why! The ugliness that is war, is beautiful depicted by the marines who battle the Somalis. I have to warn you, before you go see this movie that it is not a very easy movie to see, and some of the scenes can be gruesome. The lady next to me, had to go outside several times...because she just could not stand the site of the bleeding and death. I think this episode in Somalia is subtlety telling us the situation that marines would/are facing in Afghanistan.
Overall, I gave the movie a 9 not 10, because I think the Somalis were depicted like mad men, which is not true (American war movies have the tendencies of just focusing on their sides). No wonder that the Somalis who live in American protested this movie. However, other than this fact, it is really an unbelievable movie.