Reprehensible Tosh

Rating: 2/10 (21 July 2010)

I am truly amazed at the gushing reviews for this film. This may be a "true" story, but frankly this could have been a war movie or western about any conflict, international or domestic. Because in reality this was just an excuse for Scott to create what boils down to a two-hour gunfight. What story there is is paper thin and the plot is set out on a plate for the audience in the first 5 minutes, probably because if it wasn't nobody would understand what the feck was going on for the next two hours.
Character development is virtually non existent, plot development is so clichéd and hackneyed so as to be almost irrelevant to the movie, because what this is really about is CGI pyrotechnics.
This a boys film for white boys(I think there is one female character in the whole film who is on screen for about 5 seconds, and one black character on the US side), and you would be hard pressed to tell any of the characters apart as they shout, shoot and blast their way through this insidious pile of crap.
Why insidious? Well, the Americans / The Goodies, are fighting the Somalies / The Baddies. The Americans are 99.9% good, white wholesome American boys, with one black face we see a couple of times. The Somalies are evil, violent and nasty black men. Can you spot the sub text? Its not hard to read into the movie a feeling that the great white American, whatever the pressure will fight and beat the black menace, wherever they are in the world - in Africa searching out evil warlords, or back in the US battling evil African America gangsters.
Utter rubbish - the worst film I have seen for many years.