A movie such as this is hard to hate, it's hard not to sympathise with the characters even though they have such little development. Humans have a genetic reaction towards other humans in despair to want them to succeed, and when a war film is presented in such a realistic way it's not to feel part of the movie. The goreand the distressing images all ground the movie into its realistic state while allowing for some great choreographed action scenes. My only one complaint with the movie is that the first act perhaps drags on longer than it should with some of the long fights becoming repetitive, this could also be argued against saying it's more realistic and such, but film wise I saw this as slowing down the plot which also has a few bumps. There isn't much in terms of plot, again they can't change events that actually happened so it would be unfair of me to criticise. But the film does fall into the common mistake of not showing but instead telling at the start, I understand that the beginning descriptions display weeks of story which would otherwise take multiple films to cover but majority of plot development is on screen text. Overall a really great movie which pulls on the heart strings towards the end, I would recommend checking it out. 8/10.
Review of Black Hawk Down
