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Overview
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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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We were soldiers AND made a great film...
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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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The Black Hawk going down, spiraling as it crashlands, was achieved largely through real, skilful flying of the helicopter, with some CGI augmentation. The minute it hits the ground, however, the whole thing becomes computer generated.
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Continuity: The mini-guns and rocket launchers mounted on Little Bird disappear and reappear between shots (being replaced by flat benches) after it breaks formation when it is sent to Walcot's crash site.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Path to Redemption (2006) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Suspicious Minds
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Black Hawk Down is first and foremost an immensely effective war film, but beyond that, its one of the most subtly differently made war films ever. Most war films usually either have a single hero through whom we see everything (i.e. Platoon), or present us with a squad of soldiers, all of whom are identifiable "types" (i.e. Saving Private Ryan). Black Hawk Down takes a different approach, instead giving us a very wide array of characters, none clearly singled out as a hero or type to command the audience's attention. The general effect is to create that feeling of a team army that George C. Scott so ardently expounded to us at the start of Patton. Furthering this feel of military professionalism, the film never cheapens itself by putting too much emotional weight into one moment. The plot moves ahead at a constant pace, cutting from location to location, without slowing down to focus too much on individual soldiers. The effect is of watching documentary footage of a real military operation gone wrong. While the effect of this scripting approach may produce some detachment among viewers on the first viewing, it makes the film all the better on subsequent viewings.
And you'd better believe there will be subsequent viewings, because Ridley Scott has created one of cinema's all-time great pieces of eye candy here. The editing, cinematography, grading, scoring and visual effects all combine to leave a viewer just as drained upon leaving the theatre as these soldiers were on leaving Mogadishu. The intensity of this film's combat is easily equal to Saving Private Ryan, and leaves such pretenders as We Were Soldiers behind in the dust. Black Hawk Down lacks the former's emotional resonance, but unlike the latter, it thrives on the fact, creating a final product as mind-challenging in its construction as it is mind-blowing its visualization.