All too realistic, with some disturbing elements

Rating: 7/10 (26 August 2002)

No doubt about it, the battle scenes are very realistic, and the actions of the soldiers are much more realistic than the usual bunch of cliches (an obvious one was making sure weapons/vehicles were destroyed behind them).
But, but...
The waves of Somali soldiers (oh wait, they're not good enough to be soldiers? Died for their country/beliefs didn't they?) getting gunned down systematically was pretty sickening after a while. I kept thinking, no goal could justify this SLAUGHTER.
Secondly, I thought it demonstrated very well the stupidity of the "no one gets left behind" philosophy. Because of that they went from (possibly) just one soldier captured, to 19 dead. Sorry, but that's how you lose battles and it plays right into the hands of anyone who knows that wounded is better than dead.
Well, I'm not really saying those are bad things about the movie, just things it made me think, that I hope others would think about too.
Difficult to rate this one. For realism, it would be high, but it really wasn't that great a movie, because it restricted itself just to the combat experience. 7 I think.