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Summary: Shoot 'em up!
Review: This is at best a single dimensional movie with very little to offer other that more obfuscation of American foreign policy.Very little characterisation and not even the full facts! As action movies go, this one would surely make John Wayne proud! Nice gross, pity about the movie!
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Summary: AWSOME ACTION MOVIE!
Review: Talk about action! This movie is non-stop action from the moment it begins to the moment it ends. As much as I love WWII genre movies, thins movie was a good break from that period of time and brought the action to a time we, as a younger gereration, can relate to. It is a movie that gives due credit to the men who serve in our nation's special ops groups. Its about time they were recognized.
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Summary: A great movie
Review: This movie was truly one of the best war movies I have ever seen. I guess because it is such a touchy subject you get a lot of reviews like "Don't see this, I didn't see it" or, "I didn't see this movie, but here's why it sucked". This movie was incredible. Even though you know the outcome before seeing it the suspense is just incredible. The ticking style music when the choppers are approaching the landing site just has you on the tip of your seat. I love how the music changes when showing the different forces, and the ambient Muslim singing in the background is a nice touch. This movie is very graphic, and it feels like the whole situation is a giant mess. The situation starts off bad, only to get worse and worse. You totally feel for the soldiers, but at the same time the movie gives the feeling of "what the hell were they trying to do" The whole focus changes from a simple arrest to trying to get the hell out of the town. This is history, and who knows, maybe it's not perfect in the movie, but to not like the movie because you didn't like the event is kind of silly. It happened, and I think the movie has a lot to learn from, especially culturally. I felt like I really could feel why the "West" cannot help the world, and why we can't fix everything or put our ideals on other cultures. The movie is like a harsh and brutal reality of how things are in some parts of the world, and how we are sometimes powerless to change them. Black Hawk Down is definitely in my top 5 favorite movies.
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Summary: Movie Reviews...Not Political Reviews
Review: This is suppose to be a forum for reviewing films....Not a forum for discussing political views or bashing. Keep to the subject.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: This movie was a very real depiction of a war-time situation. In that, this was a well done movie. For the viewer, however, I found the movie too intense. There was little time for a person to recover from each sceen and absorb the information introduced. By the end of the movie, instead of reflecting on the movie, I just wanted to give my senses a break and not think about anything for a while.
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Summary: Ridley Scott's Graphic Masterpiece Comes To DVD
Review: Ridley Scott's Graphic War Film Black Hawk Down is a masterpiece on every level of film making. It intorduces its charcters well even theo we don't know much about them. We feel what they half to go through in the film. What I liked most about the film is that it shows the level of cauos that war is. When something goes wrong these charcters act like real people would they act scared,afride,and nervous. You mite not know these charcters well enough. But you no them enough to feel for them when they get hurt or killed. This movie is based on true events. A word of Warning the violence in this movie is extremely graphic and prolonged and is not for the faint at heart. In one prolonged scene a soilder is wouded and the other soilders must operate on him or he will die. The camara lingers on the wound as blood gushes out of the wound we as a movie audience must witness this for awhile it last saverel minutes and that is just one scene. this is by far one of the best war film's I have seen It is a masterpiece. But again this is not a movie for people with weak stomic's.
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Summary: "It's about the man next to you"
Review: Black Hawk Down is an amazing movie. Ridley Scott did the right thing and told the actual story of what the soldiers did in the battle without the usual Hollywood exaggerations, fake morals, political correctness, and flag waving. The action is so fast that it's hard to breathe while watching it on the screen and the realism makes it feel as if you had just run the Mogudishu Mile. Black Hawk Down will leave you feeling exhausted. And by the end, you'll understand a little secret about the soldiers serving in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Special Operations Forces, Hoooah.
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Summary: Blackhawk Down.
Review: I received an email from the man who happened to be "Super 65" the blackhawk flying in trace of Durant ("Super 64") on that mission. In a nutshell, he said the movie was "right on the money" in terms of actual events. I'm guided not by the opinions of artsy-fartsy "filme" critics or the general public, but of those soldier who FOUGHT THE BATTLE. THEY say it was on the money. That's good enough for me.
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Summary: Action Movie King Ridley Scott Pulls no Punches...
Review: The movie Black Hawk Down is based on a true story, as narrated by author and newspaper reporter Mark Bowden in his book of the same title. It retells the events of October 4, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, when two U.S. Army Ranger Black Hawk helicopters were shot down during what was mean to be a short and relatively one-sided special operations mission. When the battle was over, nearly 100 U.S. special operations servicemen --- Rangers and Delta Force --- were dead or wounded with, according to the History Channel, anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000 Somalis dead, including women and children who had participated in the battle as heavily armed combatants. The battle and the heavy U.S. losses were credited with then-President Clinton's ill-fated decision to withdraw from Somalia, a decision that may still haunt the United States today in its action in Afghanistan. (Osama Bin Laden has taken credit for funding the Somalis responsible for the shooting down of the Black Hawks.) While the movie depicts a fairly one-sided "them vs. us" simplification of the action in Somalia, at the tactical level the action did probably come down to just that for the U.S. servicemen involved. Not as heavy in character development nor in explaining why exactly our men were in harm's way as, for example in We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down is still an incredible story and a very compelling movie to watch, particularly if you are interested in modern-day war. Ridley Scott makes no effort to make war look pleasant and while he's clearly going more for the action genre that propelled movies like Aliens to blockbuster success, in my opinion he does a very adequate job of covering the events surrounding a terribly miscalculated mission and describes how the men caught in the maelstrom of violence do the best they can with what they are given, with one common goal: to survive and to get out of harm's way. Definitely not for the squeamish, Black Hawk Down is an attractive, compelling, well-acted, violent, and thoroughly entertaining movie that pulls no punches. Even though it simplifies the complexities of war and America's relatively new role as the world's police force, I think very few that watch the movie will not also be moved to think about the events. While not a political movie, nor necessarily a politically correct one, Black Hawk Down does make one realize that, no matter whether the causes have always been right or the high-level leadership decisions correct, down in the trenches, the average soldier impacted is truly a hero and does the best he or she can with what they are given, performing a very important job that few of us would want to do in their stead.
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Summary: Loved the movie...disappointed in the DVD!
Review: My three star ranking is for the dvd, not the movie itself. I LOVED this movie, so have been waiting anxiously for release of the dvd, which I bought as soon as it came out. I was very disappointed. There is one 20 minute on the set featurette and that's it for the special features. It doesn't even include the theatrical trailer (it does have two trailers for different movies); no deleted scenes, nothing else. I actually went through the menus three times because I assumed I must have been missing something. Of course I would have bought the DVD anyway, just because I love the movie so much, but it was still a letdown.
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