Review of Black Hawk Down

I love military-action movies, and this was by far the best. It won 2 Academy Awards (Best Film Editing and Best Sound) and I can believe it. It is about 100 U.S. soldiers who were dropped down over a crowded market in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a brutal Somali warlord, Mohammed Farah Aidid. Aidid's militia has been starving the Somali people by taking control of all the UN food aid that comes in and he is basically starving people to death (when he's not shooting them). The soldiers' mission was supposed to take an hour (many soldiers didnt even care about wearing a flak vest or not) but they ended up surrounded by thousands of armed Somalis fighting for their lives throughout the night, with many, many casualties as well as two seemingly-invincible Black Hawk helicopters are shot down. The acting is great, and Josh Harnett proves that he can play an aggressive soldier just as well as he can play different characters in other films (The Faculty, Pearl Harbor, etc.). The special effects are completely incredible, by far beating out the action scenes in Saving Private Ryan. If you like action or modern-war movies, or just like any exciting film, you have to see this! Feel free to email me if you have any questions.