Good movie

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2004)

I just saw this movie last night, and thought it was an excellent movie. I liked it for many reasons, but mostly I felt it was an accurate depiction, and especially in that they did not try to make any of the rangers or delta force guys out to be some supernatural hero, but instead displayed them as they are more likely to be - human and vulnerable, and perhaps because of that, even more heroic.
I also felt like posting because I just read the last review (by Shea someone - forget now) and had some comments about that. The first are nitpicky - Tom Sizemore did not play the Delta Force character you mention - Eric Bana did (who later played in Hulk). Sergeant Matt Everston did not lead the raid by any means. He wa sin charge of one of the 4 Ranger Chalks, which think are kind of like platoons. An Army Ranger Captain was over the 4 Chalks, and a Lieutenant Colonel was in charge of the ground mission as a whole (both of whom participated in the mission, not just from the sidelines).
I also wanted to comment on their comment about it as well taking a negative stance on war (pro vs. con). I didn't think that it did. And there was also a statement that this was a war they should never have been involved in. I think that is a difficult thing to say. Perhaps the wrong move was to take them out when the going got tough. It wasn't that they were interfering in a civil war. It's that they were standing up for human rights. Warlords were hording food and hundreds of thousands were dying. Certainly that justifies some intervention, but we could debate to no end whether war is justified of not, and so I won't even go there. But it is easy to say they never should have been there, but also not fair to say that. I personally think they should have stayed, but this is my opinion, and not a fact.
Anyway, in short I thought the film was good, and based on documentaries of the same event, it seems to be fairly accurate in protraying the situation as it was in Somalia in 1993. A job well done.