Films » Black Hawk Down
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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.
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Black Hawk Down
A truly epic war film. Despite it being quite long, it keeps a decent pace, and didn’t seem to drag out.
I have my standard war film complaint: too many characters that I end up not being able to distinguish, especially when they’re covered in dirt and so on. But I think that actually somewhat works in its favour in this case? The cast is SO broad that it doesn’t really matter if you can only follow a couple of them, it just lends more to the chaotic tension.