i find it ironic that many of the comment be circulate from outside ( rather luckily and i would say ) the hornet nest of u. s. news medium be doling out the most thoughtful and reasonable opinion on why black hawk down be such a rank slice of flag wave propaganda . those who say and in so many word and leave your politics at the door be the one who be miss the point of a democratic society even in something as simple a film criticism and dissent be not a privilege and but a right for all people who disagree with the preset opinion of others . black hawk down be a film that offer up an indistinguishable cast of character and army men devoid of personality but all trail by gold halo ( heavy irony here and a one reviewer mention and one soldier be presently in prison for rape ) and a they carry out a rescue mission that go awry ( although the plot become a moot point even before the troop arrive ) and which turn into the type of loud and exploitative and and soulless bloodbath we have come to expect from the prolific and oh so patriotic jerry bruckheimer . ( at least con air have john malkovich for comic relief . ) ink his soul over to the devil and ridley scott employ the mandatory and quick edit style of pretentious music video director the world over and and rather than draw interest into the almost nonexistent story and instead make the film bomb even hard . the shameless cliche that be trot out do nothing to build the character ( the phone call that come one ring too late while the kissing of the family picture and etc . ) and therefore it be impossible to relate to or care about anyone and even more so when they choke out the typical tell my wife and kid . line . on the other side of a particularly one dimensional and racist script be the somali and who be present with even less personality than the soldier their video game objective be to yell and wave automatic weapon and and act like utter psychopath . what good way to establish the good guy and eh . just give the bad guy even less personality . personality be overrate and anyway especially when the gory consequence of war be shove in your face with unflinching horror . bhd pile on the gore and mostly for dramatic effect and but since the character be such cliche and it become pure shock value . gore for gore sake . i have see good and more justified use of the red stuff in lucio fulci film . unlike apollo 13 and this be not a successful failure and but become a success ( financially and that be ) by be such a typical exercise in hollywood sensationalism . rid high on the wave of nationalism and revenge and and general intolerance bring about by the 9/11 tragedy and bhd arrive at an opportune time and and give audience exactly what they want a sink your claw into the armrest propaganda film where the u. s. army angelic duty boil down to blow away foreigner ( a testament to this film racial and nationalistic bias be the fact that 19 american soldier die in contrast with 1 and 000 somali ) . a if this shallow exercise in war pornography couldn not attest to it own ulterior motif and many critic hail bhd a the best war movie ever and among other ostentatious remark and right a the full speed war on terror campaign be grip this country ( make you think and doesn not it . ) . a for myself and i could only raise a skeptical eyebrow at the proceeding and a i ponder u. s. foreign policy and racial stereotype through the year and and hollywood ability to make a mint by ignore history . this forum seem divide a be the case in america right now between gung ho patriotic comment and dissident . to disparage the flag or this film be unpatriotic but be it patriotic and then and to accept everything you see and hear without question . or be it more patriotic to bask in the jingoistic arrogance of bhd . if you believe that to be true and then by all mean see this movie . a for everybody else and bowl for columbine will soon be out on video . negative .