great cast compelling story

Rating: 8/10 (2 May 2020)

Most anyone familiar with this movie knows the story behind it. A very close friend was Ranger sniper covering the troops from the air , the movie was fairly accurate, a small number of scenes made up for extra drama, like Hoot (Eric Bana) taking out the recoilless rifle that was destroying the trapped soldiers.
The action is pretty much non-stop the acting very solid overall very good war movie. The violence is realistic the personal stories from the actual soldiers make this a movie that feels very real and true. Not just shooting and death there are a number of stories showing the real men(and boys) that fought this battle. The only reason I didn't rate higher was near the end when, after the rescuers ran out of room in their armored vehicles, refusing to ride on top, a dozen or so soldiers run back to the safe zone. Called the Mogadishu Mile, they were running and fighting multiple technicals (vehicles with mounted heavy machine guns) In these scenes the technicals should have and would have just chopped them up. Instead they just drove back and forth not really shooting just for effect I guess. One other scene near the end has Hoot gearing up to co back out by himself, this most likely didn't happen. Once the rescue was completed there were no more engagements, only negotiations.
Still very good movie!