cinemajesty Movie Review: "Black Hawk Down" (2001)Declared a "Failed State" by the United Nations in 1992, Somalia remains in civil war conflicting confrontations since 1991, where all involved regimes have a relentless hungry for power of their population, greed towards declining natural resources and famine all cross country ravishing on to this very day in one of most burning grounds on this planet located in Nothern-Eastern part of Africa.Director Ridley Scott takes on this Academy-Award-nominated directorial effort on U.S. military rescue mission intervention to total fall-out situations in nerve-striking modern warfare action sequences with title-given spectacular shot crash sights by also Academy-Award-nominated highly-visceral cinematography by Slawomir Idziak, who makes sure that in concrete-splintering, blood-splashing shots of high-end combat, the characters with an amazingly assembled ensemble cast, including Military-General-portraying war-lord confronting actor Sam Shepard (1943-2017), Eric Bana as solid rock of an honorable sergeant, Josh Hartnett and Tom Hardy performing with faces of hardly-conceivable innocence to their roles, when Colonel McKnight, portrayed by performance-pushing-endeavors Tom Sizemore must bring his men home in a pursued convey under constant fire power alongside all-too-fast cut and gone beats of urban war horror representing supporting efforts by Jason Isaacs, Ewen Bremner, William Fichtner and Ewan McGregor that director Ridley Scott hits his signature marks of war knowing no heroes, but survivors and the remembrance of being as clear as taking care of the man beside you, when it comes to battle in an forfeited war zone disturbance by U.S. government initiatives.Producer Jerry Bruckheimer alongside producing with director Ridley Scott make sure throughout this 135-Minute-editorial by Acdemy-Award-winning editor Pietro Scalia that "Black Hawk Down" even its observation state of capturing the actions of struggling as misguided U.S. American soldiers in a civil war of no prisoners, as to say plain ongoing genocide with hundred of thousands dead, finds respectable and conservative conclusions with emotions of defeat and the will to carry on into a better future.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

spiritof67 The few here who have ever had to experience live fire on the level shown in this movie will know this: this movie is the closest thing to a real firefight most people will see, and bear in mind it is sanitized. The real thing is even worse, even scarier, even louder...and again, even worse.This is a rough, intense movie. Probably right on the edge of what is in any way commercial. I am actually surprised any studio released this film, it's that hard-core. Spoiler alert here..Somalia is a fourth-world country with mores more akin to perhaps the 5th or 6th Century. Do not expect to leave the theater or your other viewing location with much sympathy for them, and they aren't looking for it from you. And I speak with experience. A hell of a movie, and I mean that in every sense of the word. And look up the term "fire discipline".

210west I was thrilled by this film in the theater when it first came out, and I've subsequently watched it, or sections of it, dozens of times at home. Each time, I admire its brilliant direction, editing, sound, music, the rhythm of the action, and the sheer beauty of many of the shots. Ridley Scott has made some classic films and (more recently) some disappointing ones. This, I think, is his best.But it's definitely confusing as hell, and even after all these viewings -- even after having read Mark Bowden's book (which the film follows very closely) -- I have trouble keeping track of all the various characters: the Deltas, the Rangers, and their complicated movements around war-torn Mogadishu.Most confusing of all -- something that puzzles me each time I see the film (and which the book fails to clear up) -- is why this poorly planned military operation was ever okayed in the first place. As depicted on screen, it seems the most harebrained scheme imaginable, because it's so ridiculously vulnerable, just one tiny step away from utter failure.All it takes to screw up the mission is a lone RPG fired at one of the low-flying helicopters. And hovering in the air just above the rooftops, the choppers make the easiest of targets; a single strike with a rocket can bring one down, and when one goes down (followed shortly afterward, of course, by a second), the entire mission turns into a colossal disaster.Sam Shepard, playing the general in charge, is, as always, an impressive figure, but you want to shout at him, "You idiot! What were you thinking?"

alicecbr many Americans pay a steep price for their war injuries even if they never served a day in combat. Their 'combat' was as the child of a strict, PTSD injured father, such as Sam Sheperd's was. WE may never know what that estrangement cost Sam but some of his plays indicate the awful coldness he suffered.We have stuck our noses into so many places we had no business in. I wonder why it is that Steve Bannon of all people, the harbinger of death ALSO doesn't want us in these places. I understand why. Why those guys had to die in Mogadishu is a mystery to me and anybody who watches this. Has a biography of Shepherd been written to explain the relationship between The Buried Child, a completely dysfunctional family, Sam's father's war experience and Sam's childhood?Excellent movie if you want to see the Hell and inhumanity of war. i've seen enough for one life, and this 5 time tax evader in the White House will get us into yet another war. Let's pray we don't have to witness nuclear war as this madman seems to think perfectly possible.