3/4  Black Hawk Down
Josh Hartnett is amazing in this movie. Excellent use of camera angles and sounds. I believed that I was right there in the action with the characters. The use of day and night when danger approaches is well done also. My only problem is t... (read full)

2.5/4  Not as Good As Book
I had read the book before seeing this movie. The book was great and I mean GREAT. If you like to read I highly recommend it. The movie was ok and I think if I hadn't read the book I would have enjoyed it more. I felt in the book you h... (read full)

3/4  Black Hawk Down Quick Review
War is hell and Black Hawk Down doesn't sugarcoat it. Real soldiers, real danger, real sacrifice. One of the best modern war movies - it took me way too long to finally watch this one.

3.5/4  Black Hawk Down Quick Review
Perfectly portrays the life of soliders in war, not much else to the film but it is down well. very graphic

3.5/4  Black Hawk Down Quick Review
Great film with marvelous score and beautiful cinematography. One of the best war films of the past 20 years.

2.5/4  Black Hawk Down Quick Review
I was looking forward to another Gladiator type movie. What I go was an OK war film. Though not as good as Jarhead, it has some interesting war scenes. We also learn a lot of what happened in that distant country. War fans will enjoy.

5/5 Awesome Movie
  by G. Donnelly (Accokeek, MD)
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.

5/5 OH YA
  by Canoeist (Phoenix, AZ USA)
I just recently saw this DVD for the first time and I am hooked! Move over Band of Brothers.

4/5 A little to much blood and guts
  by Gregory J. Oneal (Pierre Part, La)
The movie it's self wasn't much and the quality of the Blu-ray was okay but, not impressive.

4/5 Good Movie, great looking & sounding blu-ray.
  by Dana
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.

5/5 Among the Best Infantry Combat Films Ever Made
  by drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
No actor stands out here; any variation in character or performance is masked by the uniforms, the nature of the action and its consequences on the men. Pretty much what infantry combat is all about, differences merged in a uniform terror, heroism, instinct for self preservation, incredible feats of bravery, and all submerged in the din and smoke of combat. One of the reasons for inequality of rewards for effort is that it is almost impossible to know who is doing what with whose help.
The flavor comes through in the film. Impressive is the fact that it conveys, knowingly, I assume, the confusion, the lack of accurate information, the unpredictability, the disjuncture between the orders of the highest level and the needs for behavior at the lowest levels where death, maiming and psychic distress are the natural outcomes of infantry combat.
If one steps back to look at the larger perspective within which this mission took place, you may form your own opinion about the event, the film, to a remarkable extent does not. Whatever ones broader view of the place this sort of action plays in the life of nations, one should remember that no period of human history has been free of such social behavior while the century just past may have set the record for sheer brutality and certainly did set the record for the number who fell as combatants in war, magnified partly because in modern warfare there is no longer a distinction between military and civilian when it comes to being killed and injured, only a distinction, increasingly blurred, between those who are killed and also kill, and those who are killed but do not kill others directly.