Hailed as one of the best modern war movies ever made, Ridley Scott's 2001 film Black Hawk Down opens with the title card simply claiming "Based on actual events." Should such a thing be taken for face value, or should we question just how accurate the film really is?
Black Hawk Down follows 1993's real-life Battle of Mogadishu, in which a small troop of American soldiers tasked with capturing two high-up agents (working for a local Somali warlord), were ambushed by a larger-than-expected force of militia.
Famed for its realism and heavy action, the movie works so spectacularly well. Gritty and covered in rubble, sweat coats white faces as they are assaulted by heavily armed forces equipped with rocket launchers, machine guns, and all the gear required to bring down the US army's mighty Black Hawk helicopters.
Gritty Retelling or MTV History?
With a 92 million dollar Hollywood film starring a...
Black Hawk Down follows 1993's real-life Battle of Mogadishu, in which a small troop of American soldiers tasked with capturing two high-up agents (working for a local Somali warlord), were ambushed by a larger-than-expected force of militia.
Famed for its realism and heavy action, the movie works so spectacularly well. Gritty and covered in rubble, sweat coats white faces as they are assaulted by heavily armed forces equipped with rocket launchers, machine guns, and all the gear required to bring down the US army's mighty Black Hawk helicopters.
Gritty Retelling or MTV History?
With a 92 million dollar Hollywood film starring a...
- 6/11/2023
- by Jon Holmes
- MovieWeb
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