Near Perfect!

Rating: 9/10 (7 February 2005)

This is a movie that had the ability to have an epic, but fell short in one department, the soundtrack. There was no need for any of the rock music in the first 40 minutes of the movie, especially the ever so clichéd Jimi Hendrix while getting into the helicopter.
The action was intense and non-stop, the emotion was there, the cinematography was spot on, and the sound (outside of the soundtrack) was very realistic. It is also always nice when at the end of a "based on a true story" film, it gives you updates on how things finished. Ridley Scott did a tremendous job with this film. All things told an excellent retelling of a sad and rough day.