Black
Hawk Down (2002)
Director:
Ridley Scott
Cast: Josh
Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor,
Tom Sizemore,Jason Isaacs, Sam Shepard,
William Fichtner.
Length: 145
minutes
Release: 18th
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As
a war film, "Black Hawk Down" is first rate. It's exciting, well paced
and full of action. Ridley Scott proves to be at home with the adrenalin
rush of modern technological warfare, piling on the firefights, helicopter
crashes and bloody carnage. |
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On
Sunday 3rd October 1993, 140 US soldiers stormed the Bakara Market
in Mogadishu, Somalia, to capture two lieutenants in the service of
a local warlord. What should have been a simple search and capture
operation lasting under an hour, turned into a hellish battle in a
foreign city that didn't end until the following morning, when the
troops were finally evacuated. The US army suffered its heaviest losses
since the Vietnam War.
Continuing
the visceral tradition of war films post-"Saving Private Ryan",
"Black Hawk Down" scatters body parts round the screen
like confetti.
The
problem is that its subject - American soldiers fighting Somali
Muslims - is too close to the current world situation to suit a
no-brains action story. In a belated attempt to mould the film to
suit the post-September 11th climate, the film makers have added
a series of opening and closing titles that desperately try to say
something about the Battle of Mogadishu's wider significance, but
these simply seem hastily written and ill advised.
"Black
Hawk Down" doesn't so much lose sight of the political factors
behind the action, as never actually notice them until after the
event - making it less a film about the American experience in Somalia
than a patriotic airbrushing of what was actually America's worst
day of combat since Vietnam.
The
only parallel it really wants us to draw with the contemporary international
situation is a facile message about the US of A as an ass-kicking
superpower - and that's why it gets top marks for the action; zero
marks for the message.
"Black Hawk Down" opens in UK cinemas on Friday 18th January
2002.
Reviewed
by , 大象传媒 Films
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