Black Hawk Down (2001) 6/10

Starring : Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewan Bremner
Director : Ridley Scott
Running Time : 139 mins

Based on true events, a large number of Army Rangers are dropped into Mogadishu to capture two high ranking lieutenants that work for a Somali warlord, but when two of their helicopters are shot down the rangers are forced into a blazing gun battle in order to rescue their fellow soldiers.

Not only was this movie too long, but it was pretty boring to boot. You’d think that a movie that basically has people shooting at each other for over an hour would be thoroughly enjoyable – at least to fans of action movies – but this just went on and on and got nowhere, I suppose it could be the fact that, in reality, it was a pretty drawn out gun battle, but Scott needs to learn how to edit out the unnecessary parts and stick to what keeps the story going.

You’ll like this if you liked : Saving Private Ryan