Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2002)

This is the best war film since Coppla's Apocalypse Now. Take the first 35 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (the only truly great sequence in that film) and multiple it by 100 for 2 hours, and you have Black Hawk Down. The film isn't trying to develop characters, because it isn't needed. The film isn't trying to explain the politics of the situation, because half the soldiers there didn't even know what was going on. The film is simply there to put an audience right in the middle of a combat zone, and it succeeds where no other film has. This film is unforgettable. Ridley Scott has conquered yet another genre.