Fresh
I also don't know how well this 2001 drama represents the events of October 3 and 4, 1993, though I can see that it represents them in a realist vein, referring to other war movies without becoming frivolous.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Black Hawk Down
Leave no man behind.
2001 · 2h 25m · R
Action, History, War
Directed by
Ridley Scott
Overview
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Director and cast
- Ridley Scott Director
- Josh Hartnett as SSgt. Matt Eversmann
- Ewan McGregor as Spec. John Grimes
- Eric Bana as SFC Norm 'Hoot' Gibson
- Jason Isaacs as Capt. Mike Steele
- Tom Sizemore as Lt. Col. Danny McKnight
- William Fichtner as Sfc. Jeff Sanderson
- Sam Shepard Cast
- Ewen Bremner Cast
- Tom Hardy Cast
- Orlando Bloom Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Black Hawk Down makes that point without preachment, in precise and pitiless imagery. And for that reason alone it takes its place on the very short list of the unforgettable movies about war and its ineradicable and immeasurable costs.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten
A relentless immersion in combat strikingly realized but none too pleasurable to sit through.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh
A first-rate war movie that presents its subject so horrifyingly well that it doesn't need to probe or preach.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
[D]efinitely worth seeing for those amazing battle sequences.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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