The Greatest War Movie of all time? Don't be so silly!!!

Rating: 4/10 (21 January 2002)

How anyone can call this the greatest war movie of all time is beyond belief. I have two words to say to you, "Apocalypse Now".

Yes the action scenes in Black Hawk Down are fantastic, as we've come to expect from Ridley Scott but how much more of this gung-ho, God bless America, over the top-ness can one man take? It's an unbeleivably one sided story and I must admit I found it quite racist, was there just one black person fighting on the American side? and in a role where you'd blink and miss him.
I have to say that special effects alone do not a good movie make and I'm afraid that is all we have here.
As I write this Black Hawk Down has a IMDB rating of 8.5 which I find quite astonishing.
For Ridley Scott, for every Alien there's a GI Jane, for every Blade Runner there's a Hannibal, and unfortunately for every Gladiator there's a Black Hawk Down.
Beleive me when I say, miss this out and go see Apocalypse Now Redux instead, that, my friends, is a war movie.