Black Hawk Down
by Ridley Scott
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Actor: Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, William FichtnerDirector: Ridley Scott
Brand: Sony
Producer: Branko Lustig
Producer: Chad Oman
Producer: Harry Humphries
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer: Mike Stenson
Writer: Ken Nolan
Writer: Mark Bowden
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 144 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Black Hawk Down
DVD Review: Amazing Movie. So So Blu Ray
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is a classic, but the Blu Ray isn't necessarily so. Its only a mild improvement over the SD version. If you already own the SD version, I might recommend you not upgrade, unless you find a good deal. DVD Review: never received it
Summary: 5 Stars
we reall liked this movie, and my sons platoon had asked me to pick it up if I ran across it and I did look for it in the stores but couldn't find it so decided to order it from Amazon. Well I never received the movie or even a response to the note that I had written to the Sellers. So I wasn't happy with this one.DVD Review: Blu-ray is not for this !
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a good film, but the video is not a pleasure to watch in blu-ray. Grain, bad contrast, bad colors. If this is what the director wanted, like some people say, so we could stay with the DVD. Talking about DVDs I saw The Hurt Locker in DVD ... an excellent new war film, about bombs disarmers. Great video quality in DVD ! In Blu-ray if they make a good transcription the video will be GREAT !!!DVD Review: An Action-Packed, Realistic Urban Warfare Flick
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best war movies at showing the confusion, shock, intensity, and frustration of combat. Powerfully true to life. Surround Sound effects are first rate; you might think you're right there, especially in some of the fire fights when the rockets are whooshing and bullets whizzing by the Rangers.
The scenes showing the 2 Delta Force soldiers putting themselves in the midst of overwhelming odds to rescue the crew of one of the downed Blackhawk helicopters seems so true to life to the actual rescue effort for which they were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
The best performance I've seen by Hartnett with "spot on" performances by a very talented cast. Ridley Scott succeeds again. This is a treat for war movie fans.
DVD Review: Best war Movie Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Last night I saw this movie for the probably fifth time, and still I can't find any flaw in it, for me it is probably the best war movie ever made even though the story is about a relatively minor engagement in an already forgotten police action in a backwater country as Somalia.
There are many strong characters but what stands out for me are the exchanges between the characters of Hoot(Eric Bana) and Eversman (Josh Harnett). Hoot is the quintescential warrior, a Delta Forces sargeant that has seen it all, he convines experience with talent and a strong intellect. Eversman is a young man thrown before his time to the burdens of command as his team leader suffers a seizure and cannot continue leading his chalk. The exchanges between these two characters for me are the main part of the movie. Hoot counsels the younger warrior, he demands focus and getting the mission done before letting anguish and guilt take over, his men need him in all his capacity. Eversman grows as a leader and a man as the combat progresses, at the begining he is willing to endager his team and mission to save a young member of his chalk but at the end he thinks and reacts more in the interest and welfare of the entire platoon. Hoots's charge through the middle of the city to reach (although late) the crash site of the second Black Hawk and then getting in time to save Eversman's team from a recoiless rifle team at the scene of the main crash site is probably the strongest part of the movie in the action/heroics department.
The movie is about a small group of dedicated and highly trained US Special Forces and Rangers took on thousands of fanatical militias (who are also high on drugs and bloodlust) to uphold the creed that no body should be left behind after accomplishing a presumably worthwhile mission that in the end was poorly planned. It was the cammaraderie, training and ethos of these soldiers that ultimately saved the day.
The battle of Mogadishu should be remenber by the sheer technical capacity and heroic selflesness that the US soldier is capable to bring to battle, I think this movie portrays and gives a fitting homage to these brave men.
About the movie in itself the battle action puts you literally in the middle of the events, you can appreciate also the flaws on technology and chain of command decisions when the land convoy is shot to pieces while trying to reach the crash site due to lags in the relay of orders.
The music was also very enjoyable. I especially liked the rendition of The Minstrel Boy as performed by The Mescaleros, I thought it was very appropriate for the end credits of this movie.
Description of Black Hawk Down
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. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/28/2005 Starring: Josh Hartnett Ewan Mcgregor Run time: 144 minutes Rating: R Director: Ridley ScottRidley 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
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
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