Synopsis
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Josh HartnettSSG Matthew Eversmann
- Eric BanaSFC Norm 'Hoot' Gibson
- Ewan McGregorSPC John Grimes
- Tom SizemoreLTC Danny McKnight
- William FichtnerSFC Jeff Sanderson
- Sam ShepardMG William F. Garrison
- Jason IsaacsCPT Mike Steele
- Ewen BremnerSPC Shawn Nelson
- Orlando BloomPFC Todd Blackburn
- Tom HardySPC Lance Twombly
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
His is a triumph of pure filmmaking, a pitiless, unrelenting, no-excuses war movie so thoroughly convincing it's frequently difficult to believe it is a staged re-creation. - 89
Austin Chronicle
Absolutely harrowing, shocking in its sudden revelatory immediacy, and very, very well done, Black Hawk Down is one of the best depictions of the outright lunacy inherent to battle I have ever seen. - 88
Miami Herald
An overwhelmingly tactile experience. Scott brings you so close into the action, the grit and smoke and blood seem to spill off the screen and into your head. - 88
ReelViews
One hell of a ride. For better or for worse, it will leave you stunned and reeling. - 75
Baltimore Sun
Black Hawk Down, in the end, is a docudrama. But it's sensationally well done, and it opens up a battlefield that needed to be documented. - 60
L.A. Weekly
In the end, neither the appealing cast -- nor the force of Scott's stunning imagery is enough to make us understand why these men died. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
No doubt captures some of the horror and the chaos of the actual situation, but it makes for a loud, often confusing, and always bloody two and a half hours. - 50
Variety
Goes down like stiff medicine, leaving one feeling exhausted relief when it's finally over.
