160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark Bowden.
Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" tells the story of a U.S. military raid that went disastrously wrong when optimistic plans ran into unexpected resistance.
The shadow of September 11 will not always hang over the movies, but as I watched Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down it seemed to be everywhere: an ominous column of smoke rising from a city skyline
Elvis Mitchell reviews movie Black Hawk Down, dramatizing failed US mission in Somalia that cost lives of 18 American servicemen in 1993; photos; director is Ridley Scott, in collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer (M)
Black Hawk Down may substitute for a rip-roaring, jingoistic ad for the Army but it's no where as offensive as the 'be all that you can be' schematics of Behind Enemy Lines.
Director Ridley Scott's adaptation of the true war story of the attack on a group of U.S. special forces sent into Somalia in 1993 to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population.
Peter Bradshaw: Ridley Scott provides us with a pure war movie, remarkable in some ways for the severity - even asceticism - of its utter concentration on deafening and relentless action.
160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark Bowden.
Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" tells the story of a U.S. military raid that went disastrously wrong when optimistic plans ran into unexpected resistance.
The shadow of September 11 will not always hang over the movies, but as I watched Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down it seemed to be everywhere: an ominous column of smoke rising from a city skyline
Elvis Mitchell reviews movie Black Hawk Down, dramatizing failed US mission in Somalia that cost lives of 18 American servicemen in 1993; photos; director is Ridley Scott, in collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer (M)
Black Hawk Down may substitute for a rip-roaring, jingoistic ad for the Army but it's no where as offensive as the 'be all that you can be' schematics of Behind Enemy Lines.
Director Ridley Scott's adaptation of the true war story of the attack on a group of U.S. special forces sent into Somalia in 1993 to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population.
Peter Bradshaw: Ridley Scott provides us with a pure war movie, remarkable in some ways for the severity - even asceticism - of its utter concentration on deafening and relentless action.
