Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, USA, 2001) September 2, 2006
Posted by Daniel Stephens in : 2000s, Film reviews, Action/Adventure, Thriller/Suspense, War , trackbackDir. Ridley Scott; screenplay by Ken Nolan; starring Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore et al
I was left a little cold by Ridley Scott’s 2001 film about the real life crisis in Somalia. Yes, the visuals are nice, the action set-pieces are well-drilled and the very real sense that ‘war is not a good thing’ is obvious, but the lack of characterisation left the movie as a vacuous excursion in the trenches of the bloody battlefield.
I did, however, like one of the final scenes where the American soldier’s are running away from the gun-waving Somali militia. This was a very powerful sequence, beautiful photographed by Scott.
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