Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray]
From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Hannibal) and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) comes a gripping true story about bravery, camaradarie and the complex reality of war. Black Hawk Down stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor), Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Eric Bana (Chopper), William Fichtner (The Perfect Storm), Ewen Bremner (Snatch) and Sam Shepard (All The Pretty Horses). In 1993, an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime has lead to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes terribly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and literally fighting for their lives.Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. Based on author Mark Bowden’s bestselling account of the battle, Scott’s riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic. –Jeff Shannon Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. Based on author Mark Bowden’s bestselling account of the battle, Scott’s riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic. –Jeff Shannon
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Good Movie, great looking & sounding blu-ray.
If you like war movies, you will most likely have seen or own this movie already. If you like it on DVD you will really like it on blu-ray. Excellent picture and sound. If you think the price is right this is definitely worth picking up.
5 Stars Awesome Movie
This will be a gift for my 16 year old son so he hastn’ received it yet. He loves Black Hawk Down and has watched a zillion times. I think it will be a hit.
4 Stars A little to much blood and guts
The movie it’s self wasn’t much and the quality of the Blu-ray was okay but, not impressive.
5 Stars OH YA
I just recently saw this DVD for the first time and I am hooked! Move over Band of Brothers.
3 Stars Blue ray review only
forget the story, we all seen this movie .. the Blue ray picture is fine … the sound is fine though it is only 5.1 Dolby .. already in the cut rate bins so get it if you want to .. if you have the Superbit DVD with the excellent DTS sound track, stick with that .. dont know why it was not included ..
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