Action all the way!

Rating: 8/10 (19 September 2002)

If your a lover of war films that are more action than suspense you will love Black Hawk Down.This is a brilliantly shot film that shows a group of American troups caught up in the conflict in Somalia and how they tried to assassinate a rebel leader with disasterous consequences. What is strange is this war happened in 1993 , three years after the Gulf war yet at the time I don't remember hearing too much about it. While this is not in the class of Platoon or Saving Private Ryan this is still a good film which contains some of the best action sequences I have ever seen. You do feel at times that you are there and that you are fighting the battle too and that must say a lot for how good the film is. Some of the shots with the Grenade launchers are fantastic as are the devastating scenes following their hits.
One critisism is that you don't tend to get to involved with the characters , therefore you don't feel too upset when disaster befalls them. An above average movie that grips you from start to finish. 8 out of 10.