Excellent, but one flaw!

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2004)

Blackhawk Down features genuinely harrowing and tense battle sequences, but for me is slightly let down by what I consider to be a dreadful performance from Ewan McGregor, as a normally deskbound soldier thrust into battle. I bet I'm not the only one who found his "cup of Joe" line to be actually embarassing, and they have even managed to shoehorn into the cast one of his sidekicks from "Trainspotting" as an American soldier too. Fortunately his appearances are relatively rare, and not enough in themselves to be off-putting. Very well worth it, especially on a good home theatre system. I have given it 9/10, and taken off the one point because of this casting error.