Worst piece of propaganda ever to come out of Hollywood

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2002)

If you are young and don't care, you will probably classify this movie as 'cool'. You may even call this the "best war movie ever made." For others, who do have some critical sense left, you will quickly notice that producer Jerry Bruckheimer, once again, tries to rewrite history. Yes, more flagwaving, explosions, patriotic rhetorics and bullets flying all over the place, but no character development what so ever. Is this how war should be portrayed?
I guess showing which psychological and emotional effects war has on soldiers is not an option in this one. Instead the audience is bombarded with more than two hours of action-galore nonsense, which looks more like a computergame. Maybe if I had a joystick I would have liked this movie.
So we are led to believe that the US troops were there to carry out a mission in good faith? If you took time to read about the background about what REALLY happened, you will feel disgusted after having watched 'Black Hawk Down'. This movie was partially sponsored by Pentagon. Doesn't that tell you something? As a matter of fact, Pentagon dictated that the name of Ewan McGregor's role (the coffee-drinking John Stebbins) should be changed to 'John Grimes', because he in real life is serving a 30-years sentence for raping a 12-year old. In the movie he is, of course, as heroic as the rest - an all-american hero.
Don't be fooled.