Ridley Scott directing this? Beyond me.

Rating: 1/10 (17 October 2004)

So... an adaption of a novel of the Somali civil war, later a disaster being watched upon by the world, launches onto the big screen through fabulous director Ridley Scott, who has brought us wonderful movies as Alien, Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise all among my favorites.
"Black Hawk Down" is probably at the other end. This was one of those movies I couldn't watch through. So, it aims to be a "realistic" war movie yet it's all played out like an action one, skinny Somali militia runs as cannon fodder for a handful of US soldiers that are outnumbered by say 100 to 1. So, they have a few casualties as well, I'm not surprised. But it annoys me that the movie is filled with nothing but utter violence, limbs being sprayed around, bodies torn to pieces through every possibly imagined way... Well, though Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana with no doubt perform their roles solely, "Black Hawk Down" just makes me sick.
1/10