A film that is a cold and truthful reminder.

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2002)

When I went to the movie theater on Saturday, I knew that I was in for the most incredible experience of my life again. Like my past time serving in the military, Black Hawk Down is a chilling reminder of war and the spirit of the American soldier. The 140 minutes of unrelenting carnage is all true, and should never be passed off by moviegoers as a pointless blood and guts war film. The gore and hard action that is depicted by this film was real in 1993, plain and simple. The film tells the true tale of the botched U.S. special forces raid in Mogadishu Somolia in 1993. The mission that was supposed to take about thirty minutes, became an 18 hour "hell on earth" firefight. Outnumbered, injured, low on ammo, and surrounded by a fanatical enemy, the stories of the american fighters of the Rangers and Delt teams came to true light through the direction of Ridley Scott, and the producer Jerry Bruckheimer. I absolutely praise Scott for his work. His films that included Gladiator, Legend, Alien, and Blade Runner, all have another film to join them as some of the best films ever made. Black Hawk Down is an in your face minute by minute story of war. It dose not try to reach to your heart with soft notions of dramatized charcters like in Saving Private Ryan. It stays true to the true story of the american's fight for survival, and dose not fictionalize its charcters for softy points. It shows courage, determination, teamwork, faithfulness, friendship, and devotional brotherhood that flows through the blood of our armed forces. Scott's incredible film talents captured all of those things. The film should be a reminder to pacifists, hippies, anti-war protestors, and those who try to find the way out of fighting. Those who still do not understand the military and this world need to read the book, or go and serve in the military. This film and its book have my own heart thanks. I served for 4 years in the military, and I saw things I would never want people to see. I was ashamed that a few people giggled at some of the death scenes in this movie. I h=gave them the look and the words to SHUT UP. This is not a happy Pearl Harbor romance, this was the truth. I'll be ashamed if one day I see another american citizen ever pass off the these soldier's, or any soldier's sacrifice as needless.