This is the best war movie ever...

Rating: 10/10 (25 September 2002)

This movie really made me obsessed with Somalia the first time I saw it in the theater. It felt so real to up close and personal with them. It was scary real. There was rockets flying around and chunks of warm body parts spewing up, it made my stomach REALLY hurt. Just like everyone says it's a 90 minute version of the OMAHA BEACH scene from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.
It has REALLY good sound in it, so if you haven't seen this yet, go to someone's house who has huge speakers and a really big TV. There's just so much to this movie that you can't be satisfied with a dinky TV and little bitty speakers. You'll miss the spooky details if you do watch it the watered down way, and you won't fully appreciate it. It really does matter. It's really thrilling if you watch it like that. I just don't give a 10 to any movie. This one is really that good. I was a little dissapointed with the DVD cuz it didn't have that scary feeling I had that i was in a desperate situation, dodging bullets, rpgs, and my own team (friendly fire). What makes this movie so good is that it's a true story that people really don't know much about(like teenagers). It happened in 1993, so I was only 5. My mom didnt let me watch dead soldiers getting dragged through the streets(related to black hawk down), I wouldn't remember anyway. So when I walked into that theater, I didn't know what to expect, I didn't read the book anyway. There was a blue-ish scene in the beggining that had to do with the hummanitarian missions the UN went through that used really disturbing and upsetting imagery. It grabbed my attention lots. After that it went to October 2nd (the day before the big incident oct 3), to give an idea what Somalis were like. It was disturbing too. Never mind. I wont go any further but to say if you haven't read the book...please see this movie. You won't know what will happen. If you have read the book, see this movie anyway and don't gripe about mess ups since this a story of a battle that went on for 19 HOURS. You'll get to greet thousands of angry, heavily armed somalis with nothing to loose but their arms, legs, and heads. Check this movie out. It's very authentic and it's made by Ridley Scott (director of gladiator).