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Release Date:
18 January 2002 (USA)
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Tagline:
Rangers Lead the Way. more
Plot:
123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. full summary | full synopsis
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Warlord
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Somalia
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Helicopter
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Mogadishu
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Army Rangers
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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29 nominations
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NewsDesk:
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Fantastically filmed war movie(inspired by true events, which makes it even more unbelievable)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Josh Hartnett | ... | Eversmann |
 | Ewan McGregor | ... | Grimes |
 | Tom Sizemore | ... | McKnight |
 | Eric Bana | ... | Hoot |
 | William Fichtner | ... | Sanderson |
 | Ewen Bremner | ... | Nelson |
 | Sam Shepard | ... | Garrison |
 | Gabriel Casseus | ... | Kurth |
 | Kim Coates | ... | Wex |
 | Hugh Dancy | ... | Schmid |
 | Ron Eldard | ... | Durant |
 | Ioan Gruffudd | ... | Beales |
| Tom Guiry | ... | Yurek (as Thomas Guiry) |
 | Charlie Hofheimer | ... | Smith |
 | Danny Hoch | ... | Pilla |
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MPAA:
Rated R for intense, realistic, graphic war violence, and for language.
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Runtime:
144 min | Germany:142 min | USA:152 min (extended version)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Malaysia:18SG |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Portugal:M/16 |
India:A |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA (re-rating on appeal) |
Australia:R (original rating) |
Brazil:14 |
Canada:18A |
Finland:K-15 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #38095) |
Iceland:16
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Trivia:
None of the film was made in Somalia but in the similar looking cities of Rabat and Sale in Morocco. No Somali actors are included in the cast. Somalia then and today remains a dangerous and unstable country.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Before Gordon is killed Durant is sitting with Gordon's rifle in his lap. Later Gordon is killed then Shughart gives Durant Gordon's Rifle.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006) (V)
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Soundtrack:
You're the Devil in Disguise
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FAQ
What happened to Todd Blackburn? Did he live or die?What became of the Delta Force soldiers who volunteered to secure the overrun crash site?
What happened to Sgt. Ruiz?
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Black Hawk Down(2001) is truly a great war movie. Filmed extroirdinarally with gritty action scenes, this movie is (one of) the best war movies I've seen since Saving Private Ryan.
The movie is based(noticed BASED, which the director admitted they filled in A LOT of gaps they had no info on)on true events of a small force of soldiers going into an african town to take out a leader and his men, whom are blocking all food from a close town. Even food America sends over, we learn, they take as theirs. So one bad thing leads to another, and the ride they came in on, crashes, hence the name Black Hawk Down.
While I thought the film was a little of a copy off of SPR, with the camera movements, to the filming style itself, did not hinder this movie's effect on audiences at all. The pain, and whole torturous hours those soldiers were without help was shocking. It leaves you sitting in your seat after it's over, thinking what it must of been like, every second they were in theiir, always fighting. Getting this movie will pay off. I guarantee it-moviecritic2003