A stellar war movie with a stellar all star cast.

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2015)

Black Hawk Down brilliantly depicts the story of the ill-fated mission in Somalia, 1993 when US Army Rangers and Delta Force were tasked to capture the top two lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves having to fight their way out when the mission goes disastrously wrong following the titular black hawk being shot down behind enemy lines.
There is a mixture of well known and little known actors throughout Black Hawk Down, and it can be easy or tricky to spot the numerous actors throughout the movie. Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor), Ewen McGregor (Trainspotting), Eric Bana (Chopper), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), William Fichtner (Heat), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), Sam Shepard (Swordfish), Jason Isaacs (The Patriot), Jeremy Piven (TV's Entourage), Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Ron Eldard (Sleepers), Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Glenn Morshower (TV's 24) and in early roles Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises), Carmine Giovinazzo (TV's CSI: New York), Matthew Marsden (Rambo), Ioan Gruffudd (TV's Hannibal), Kim Coates (TV's Sons of Anarchy), and Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau (TV's Game of Thrones) feature in Black Hawk Down.
You can't blink or take your eyes off the screen for one moment because the war action in Black Hawk Down is non-stop and in-your-face. Based on the true story novel by Mark Bowden, Ridley Scott does the 1993 event justice by bringing it to the big screen. Black Hawk Down is one of the best modern day war movies and it is no surprise that Black Hawk Down features in many of the best war movies of all time. With a stellar all star cast, Black Hawk Down is a stellar war movie.
10/10.