The DVD extras were almost better than the movie

Rating: 7/10 (25 October 2002)

When it comes to DVD's there's nothing more annoying than renting a 2 disc movie(which is becoming a standard with the block busters) and then realize the movie sucks which means there's no point in watching the 2nd disc because it's usually about the making of the movie. Well this movie wasn't bad on its own, but it was quite a bad war movie. All the remarkable and beautiful photography(the scene where the hawks are hovering above the sea is forever burnt into my mind)the brilliantly done special effects and Zimmer's score couldn't fully compensate for the poor story and lack of character development. If you watch the extra disc you actually hear the screenwriter and some other people say that they excluded a majority of the actual characters from the original events in order to give the viewer a chance to understand and feel with the important ones. They failed miserably, I couldn't care less for the people portrayed in the movie. War movies usually have some meaning, a moral ending, an abstract ending, something to show how terrible and useless it is. This movie was more like a documentary, but who cares if 19 American soldiers died in some war where so more innocent people were killed before the free world actually did something about it. They didn't have to go to Somalia, they certainly weren't forced. And how does Ridley Scott honor the fallen men. Well, the note at the end speaks for itself. A disgrace, that can only be surpassed by that dear dear movie entitled pearl harbor. It seems that when Jerry Bruckheimer doesn't produce excellent action movies he makes terrible war movie with excellent directors instead. What a waste, because the production value, the acting, the visual and sound effects and photography, even the score(which sounds suspiciously like Zimmer's "The thin red line":) ), all is sadly spoiled by the story.7/10