Black Hawk Down Reviews

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Based on the book by Mark Bowden, Ridley Scott’s movie is faithful to the spirit of the book, however, in the interest of brevity he had to whittle down the speaking parts as Bowden's book singled out over 100 individuals which would have made the movie very confusing. Scott rolled those personalities into a half dozen characters, capturing the flavor without making the movie excessively long.

The US forces were in Somalia on a peace keeping mission. The commander, General Garrison (Sam Shepard) was continually under pressure from the Clinton Administration to "do something,"...

Based on Mark Bowden's 1999 best selling nonfiction book, Black Hawk Down is a gritty, sometimes harrowing account of the bloody firefight between 150 Army Rangers and Delta Force commandos against literally thousands of Somali militia members in the streets of Mogadishu.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Top Gun) and director Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator), working from an adapted screenplay by Ken Nolan, vividly recreate the confusion and violence of modern urban warfare in stark, often very graphic detail rivaled perhaps only by Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. It is, after all,...