Lavish Jerry Bruckheimer production with all-star cast recreating in cruel detail the Mogadishu battle, 1993

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2010)

This misadventure deals with American Delta Force and rangers undergoing a dangerous mission in Mogadishu, Somalia 1993, in a contradictory and complex political context and under command a general played by Sam Shepard . Troops transported by helicopters under command of officers (Jason Isaacs, Zeljko Ivanek), sub-officers (Josh Harnett, Eric Bana Tom Sizemore, Kim Coates) and numerous soldiers (Ewan McGregor, Orlando Bloom, Ron Eldard, Ewen Bremmer, Jeremy Piven, among others)descend on a fortress to snatch underlings in General Aidid's clan. But the disastrous assignment during 15 hours turned out to be a flop in the deaths of eighteen US soldiers and by hundred African rebels. This is an accurate portrayal, second-by-second , of the bloody bath of the Black Sea battle.
Ridley Scott helped immeasurably by superb cameraman Idziak and an excellent creative team has created the ultimate vision of war as hell on earth, a nightmarish firefight, winning deservedly Academy Award for Film Editing and Sound. Stirring and emotion of the film is aided by an exciting musical score by the master Hans Zimmer. Conventional elements in the screenplay as heroism, comradeship, are based on a story devoid of sentimentality by Mark Bowden and balanced by a genuinely complex examination of courage in the field. It is overpowered by one of the most relentlessly and realistic harrowing war footage ever committed to a fiction film. This credible , accomplished motion picture about the dramatization of the famous disaster is perfectly directed by Ridley Scott as stylish as ever , similarly his previous film(Gladiator) and others(Someone to watch over me, Blade runner,Duelists , Legend) in which his visual style is impressive. Rating : Very good, above average and not for the faint of heart, for that reason ¨Black Hawk down ¨ results to be an extraordinary work by Ridley Scott.