Acceptable After the Awful Black Hawk Down

Rating: 8/10 (28 November 2002)

Far more successful than the unjustly praised Black Hawk Down. This is not a terrific war movie as it does contain some terrible elements, such as, "Tell my wife... I love her... (last breath)". That was not a joke, it is really in there. But where the script is poor, the direction and the heart of the story are excellent. There is more wisdom said about the horror of war in the unspoken words than in the spoken words, and that makes the movie quite powerful at times. This is not an army commercial like the afore-mentioned Scott blunder.