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Black Hawk Down
2001
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and many men .. Read more
| Starring | Ewan McGregor, Kim Coates, Gabriel Casseus, Hugh Dancy |
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| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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Black Hawk Down
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and many men lost their lives. Mark Bowden of the Philadelphia Inquirer told the story of the battle in his exhaustively researched, critically acclaimed book, BLACK HAWK DOWN, and filmmaker Ridley Scott (GLADIATOR) and screenwriter Ken Nolan have done an amazing job of bringing the dramatic story to the screen. Like Bowden's book, the film does not thoroughly examine the context of the conflict, but gives a detailed and intense blow-by-blow account of the fighting. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Josh Hartnett as a competent but nervous Ranger sergeant leading his first mission, Ewan McGregor as a "desk jockey" who excels when sent into combat, Eric Bana (THE INCREDIBLE HULK) as a cocky and enigmatic Delta, and Ron Eldard as a downed Black Hawk pilot. The violence of the film is brutal and nearly constant. Scott unflinchingly captures the chaos and mayhem of battle with tremendous visual finesse.
| Starring | Ewan McGregor, Kim Coates, Gabriel Casseus, Hugh Dancy, Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Eric Bana, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard, Ioan Gruffudd, Ron Eldard |
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| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 18 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 18 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Dutch, English, Hindi |
| Released | DVD: 16 Sep 2002 Blu-ray: 30 Apr 2007 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is, financially speaking, probably the most successful moviemaker in Hollywood. His credits include 'Armageddon', 'Pearl Harbor', 'Pirates of the... read more »
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Black Turkey Down..
This film is another shameless blunt implement in the war on terror. After 9/11 the US government sent a delegation to Hollywood to discuss funding and encouraging more films that paint American in a more heroic light. So we get noble slow mo's of US soldiers being shot trying to be all 'Saving Private Ryan'. The film is the complete opposite of 'Buffalo Soldiers'.
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Superb, mesmeric
Made before Sept 11th, this film broke new ground in its attempt to portray some of the unrelenting filth of combat. Of course, it can't get close to reality - what film can - but Ridley Scott's take on what was a dreadful screw up in Somalia deserves all the plaudits it gets. The action sequences are long, unglossed, and the violence has a fatiguing, wearing character as the hours of the battle tick by and the story unfolds (a '30 minute' operation stretches into days because of the arrogance and shortsightedness of US military planners). You come out not with a sense of the 'victory' of the US at all, but of the utter senselessness of the whole situation - a fiasco from start to finish. And the Somali casualities aren't ignored - it's simply that the director wished to make the (at the time - pre Iraq - rather new) point that the idea of the invicibility of the US was actually a fallacy. Only a British director could have done this. In a world inured (sadly) to African suffering, the most telling point from 'Black Hawk Down' was that the US too, with all it's miltary power, was vulnerable- that US soldiers could die in unexpected numbers just like anyone else if America believed its own myth. Tellingly, the film concludes with the withdrawal of the US. Prescient stuff.
No it's not entirely accurate (see the veterans commentary) and the portrayal of the UN as cack handed and slow is designed to play to US audiences. It is however a film with real power and depth which said something important just a few years ago. And you'll be held all the way through, because the peformances are first class. -
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Hartnett back to full health
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Actor Josh Hartnett celebrated his return to full health on Thursday night (09Apr09) with a wild party. The Black Hawk Down star was released from Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center earlier this month (04Apr09), five days after he was admitted suffering a gastrointestinal disorder. And the star proved he is back to his normal self on Thursday - with a boozy night out with pals at the Florida Room in Miami's Delano Hotel. A source tells People.com, "Josh jumped on stage with a local Miami Read more
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