War at its worst. A movie at its best.

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2001)

Black Hawk Down displays war as realistically as any movie I've ever seen. Yes, people die. Yes, people die in rather gruesome ways. And yes, you get close ups of these people dying. However, this is war. Black Hawk Down does an excellent job depicting what can happen when something goes wrong and is a wake up call (especially to the younger generation that have only lived through operations like the Gulf War) that war is not without casualties and that our soldiers are not invincible.
Black Hawk Down also does an excellent job of not being biased. There is no judgment of whether US forces should have been there in the first place. There is no flag waving. Just the events of October 3, 1993. The operation gone wrong and the soldiers that depended on each other to get out.
This movie is not for everyone. However, it is worth seeing if you can tolerate gore. It gets its message across loud and clear. War is terrible and we should have respect for the men who go to war for us.