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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 2240
Released: June 11, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
THE HARROWING TRUE STORY OF A GROUP OF ELITE AMERICAN SOLDIERS SENT INTO SOMALIA IN 1993 AS PART OF A UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATION. THEIR MISSION IS TO ABDUCT SEVERAL TOP LIEUTENANTS OF A SOMALIAN WARLORD AS PART OF A STRATEGY TO QUELL THE CIVIL WAR THAT IS TEARING THE COUNTRY TO PIECES.
Description of Black Hawk Down:
Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. Based on author Mark Bowden's bestselling account of the battle, Scott's riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic. --Jeff Shannon
Black Hawk Down Reviews:
Awesome Movie 
2009-11-08 - This will be a gift for my 16 year old son so he hastn' received it yet. He loves Black Hawk Down and has watched a zillion times. I think it will be a hit.
OH YA
2009-11-03 - I just recently saw this DVD for the first time and I am hooked! Move over Band of Brothers.
A little to much blood and guts 
2009-11-02 - The movie it's self wasn't much and the quality of the Blu-ray was okay but, not impressive.
Good Movie, great looking & sounding blu-ray.
2009-10-28 - If you like war movies, you will most likely have seen or own this movie already. If you like it on DVD you will really like it on blu-ray. Excellent picture and sound. If you think the price is right this is definitely worth picking up.
Among the Best Infantry Combat Films Ever Made
2009-10-05 - No actor stands out here; any variation in character or performance is masked by the uniforms, the nature of the action and its consequences on the men. Pretty much what infantry combat is all about, differences merged in a uniform terror, heroism, instinct for self preservation, incredible feats of bravery, and all submerged in the din and smoke of combat. One of the reasons for inequality of rewards for effort is that it is almost impossible to know who is doing what with whose help.
The flavor comes through in the film. Impressive is the fact that it conveys, knowingly, I assume, the confusion, the lack of accurate information, the unpredictability, the disjuncture between the orders of the highest level and the needs for behavior at the lowest levels where death, maiming and psychic distress are the natural outcomes of infantry combat.
If one steps back to look at the larger perspective within which this mission took place, you may form your own opinion about the event, the film, to a remarkable extent does not. Whatever ones broader view of the place this sort of action plays in the life of nations, one should remember that no period of human history has been free of such social behavior while the century just past may have set the record for sheer brutality and certainly did set the record for the number who fell as combatants in war, magnified partly because in modern warfare there is no longer a distinction between military and civilian when it comes to being killed and injured, only a distinction, increasingly blurred, between those who are killed and also kill, and those who are killed but do not kill others directly.
