Nearly a decade after it's release Black Hawk Down is still haunting!

Rating: 9/10 (23 June 2010)

Ridley Scott's triumphant Black Hawk Down is easily one of the best war films ever made, combining the graphic battle footage made famous by Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and combining them with the relentless editing made famous in Scott movies like Gladiator.
It's 1993, Bill Clinton is the new president and the country of Somalia has plunged into civil war with tens of thousands of people dying from war and starvation the situation escalates to the point where the United Nations and the United States bring in American servicemen fresh from their victory in the 1991 Gulf War to assist in distributing food and other supplies. But the residents of Mogadishu have other plans. Led by a vicious Somali warlord named Mohamed Farrah Aidid whom the United States plans to capture.
What was going to be an easy extraction became easily the most violent military episode since the Vietnam war with nearly 20 American servicemen graphicly killed and hundreds of Somalis killed in the process.
What was originally a small civil conflict is pushed right in front of your eyes in Scott's remarkable film where hundreds of Americans literally fight for their lives to escape the city of Mogadishu.
Top notch action, acting, and direction from the great Ridley Scott and a personal triumph for producer Jerry Bruckheimer famous for those Pirates of the Carabeean films. Definitely one of the best war films ever made!