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Black Hawk Down
on DVD (2001)
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| 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 |
| Director: |
Ridley Scott |
| Studio: |
COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time: |
138 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
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| Genres: |
Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Dutch, English, Hindi |
| Released: |
16/09/2002
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| Also Available on: |
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Brief synopsis of 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.
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Black Hawk Down - Feature
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mo...
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Black Hawk Down - Bonus Disc 1
Enjoy 8 deleted scenes and alternate scenes with commentary, plus special featurettes....
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Black Hawk Down - Bonus Disc 2
Enjot the 'Ambush in Mogadishu' documentary. music videos and pgoto gallery....
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
Following on swiftly from the release of Behind Enemy Lines, here's another noisy, gung-ho modern war movie. However, the fact that this film is based on the disastrous 1993 “Battle of Mogadishu” in Somalia does not temper its flag-waving, pro-American militarism.The film's poster tagline “Leave no man behind” disguises what was a strategic American mess as chest-beating melodrama — in reality, 18 Americans were killed, as were hundreds of Somalis during a 15-hour firefight. That it should come from a British director is the surprise, though to his credit Ridley Scott has cast many non-Americans in prominent roles — an underused Ewan McGregor, an impressive Jason Isaacs, comic turn Ewen Bremner and charismatic Eric Bana. It's sensitive, cool-headed and intelligent for a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, but for all of Scott's incredible technical skill — you really do feel as if you are there — the battle scenes lack identifiable characters and there is scant insight into the Somalian conflict. In a post-11-September world, its call for “heroes” makes it little more than a recruitment film.
Halliwell's Film Guide
A success in re-creating the experience of battle in all its violence and immediacy, this fails in any wider aim: there is no attempt to explain what the US mission hoped to achieve, or why they met with such resistance from the Somalis.
Variety
"...[The] images have a raw, vital quality that heightens the urgent, you-are-there quality of the action, and all the equipment, effects and military-related details are superb..."
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