Yaaaawn!

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 2003)

Oh dear...
"Blackhawk Down" is the only war movie that's ever put me to sleep - literally. I had to go back and watch it again, since I dozed for about an hour, somewhere in the middle.
It was in the middle of *another* interminable combat sequence, where I didn't have the faintest idea who was who, and who was doing what. The "characters" may as well have been animatronic for all the sense of empathy they engendered - actually, no. I felt sorry for the animated T-rex in "Jurassic Park 3".
Perhaps I'd been tainted since I'd just seen "Band of Brothers" the week before - and came away with a tiny smidgin of understanding of how combat veterans must feel about each other, and the fact they survived. "Blackhawk Down" was just a gory mish-mash of cordite, chest-thumping and utter chaos.
Which may be all well and good in demonstrating what real combat is like. But I'm not a soldier - I'm a movie watcher. And I want to see a story told, not an endless series of heads being blown off.
0 out of 5 stars.