Black Hawk Down Reviews
Top CriticA relentless immersion in combat strikingly realized but none too pleasurable to sit through.
eFilmCritic.com
It would've been nice to get to know a few of the men we're meant to care about.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Combustible Celluloid
Whenever the battle stops for even a moment to focus on characters, just about every John Wayne war movie cliche imaginable takes over.
Matinee Magazine
Take away its timely guise of patriotism, and it's a real horror show, more about murder than military prowess.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Palo Alto Weekly
Action isn't enough to propel this blessed-with-fine-timing war adventure into anything more than a high-testosterone snoozer.
| Original Score: 2/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
What this film accomplished was show some 100 brave Army Rangers and elite Delta Force soldiers in action surrounded by about 5,000 heavily armed Somalis...
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| Original Score: C
MovieMartyr.com
I imagine most people will find something to like in Black Hawk Down, but I don't know why they'd want to be bothered with a picture that puts the audience through so much to give so little.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Cinema em Cena
O filme acaba se resumindo a uma longa seqüência envolvendo trocas de tiros, explosões e mortes, sem se preocupar com o lado humano da tragédia.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Although technically superb, this film left me exhausted, confused, and angry.
Moviola
Deja mucho que desear y muestra como su director ha optado, conforme avanza en edad, en cambiar la calidad de la historia por un exceso de violencia injustificada.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
A studied composition in flying debris, fleeing crowds, and detached limbs.
Like Mr. Scott's G.I. Jane but this time with an all-boy cast.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Somalians feel like props, something to be plugged at a shooting gallery.
Cinema Signals
Whatever level of sympathy is evoked is not enough to counter balance the sheer resentment some of us might feel at this attempt to make commercial hay out of a huge military tragedy of our time.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Philadelphia Weekly
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
As with the real life operation, the movie was not very well thought out.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Daily Telegraph
Has the pointless verisimilitude of an expensively rendered computer simulation.
Montreal Film Journal
One big shiny but empty bullet shell.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film Threat
While the film succeeds as a visceral testament to all the servicemen who fought in Mogadishu, particularly the nineteen who lost their lives, Black Hawk Down is more punishing than anything else.
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| Original Score: 3/5
