Film

Black Hawk Down 2001

Directed by Ridley Scott

  • Action, War, History
  • 145 min
  • R

Leave no man behind.

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

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Earnest, grave, relentless and classical in form.

  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • contemplativerelentless
  • classical in formformally daring
  • character-ledplot-driven

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