Could've been a great movie, but ends up a regular propaganda movie

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2014)

I like war movies. One of my favorite is "A Bridge Too Far." This movie was intense, well shot, well directed. It could've been somebody! :-) However, like most films "based on real events" it descended into fantasy-land rather than staying close to reality.
The first half of the movie was great. It steadily build tension as we saw the Somali victims, the 'evil' gunmen depriving the refugees of their food, the operation to capture Aidid, up to the battle itself.
Unfortunately, that's when the film became a fairy tale.
The part of film where the Delta team single-handedly took out a technical, garotted people etc, were total fantasy.
The movie without that fairy-tale scene, would actually be more intense, more harrowing, more truthful, and more realistic.
There were also other demeaning touches, like implying that the Pakistani Army was so lazy/ incompetent/ whatever, that it took them so long to prepare their vehicles. Well, duh, they probably were not advised of the operation by the Americans, so of course they were unprepared. And would you let soldiers from another country just borrow your armored vehicles? Puh-leeze.
The filmmakers should've had more confidence in the American people and tell as much of the truth as possible, without needing to embellish the truth with fairy tales and such.