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Black Hawk Down
(Reviewed January 7, 2002)
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This movie is a very impressive technical feat, in that it recreates a Somalia battlezone with amazing "you are there" believability. The problem is that there is no real "story" here. It is a minute-by-minute recreation of a Clinton-era military boondoggle that should have taught us to stay the hell out of other countries' internal affairs (that'll be the day), and it plays like CNN live news coverage as photographed by Hollywood cinematographers...but so what?
I guess the point here is simply that war is hell, and it doesn't matter that we can't tell who is who for most of the movie, because conflict is so dehumanizing, and blah, blah, blah. Tell us something we don't know.
Personally, I think the movie should have kept switching back to scenes of cowardly, craven, national-disgrace Clinton masturbating into the Oval Office's bathroom sink and humming "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while sending our nation's finest off to die for absolutely nothing. But God forbid that a Hollywood movie should place national events in any sort of realistic historical context...
Back Row Grade: C-
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