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	Black Hawk Down
		Der Gesamteindruck bleibt jedoch eindeutig ein positiver: In seiner Schnörkellosigkeit konsequent und beeindruckend, bleibt "Black Hawk Down" als ein sehr guter, wenn auch nicht essentieller Kriegsfilm in Erinnerung.
		Für mich ist "Black Hawk Down" in erster Linie weder ein Propagandastreifen noch Popcorn-Geballer.
		Black Hawk Down ist eine mit akribisch detailgenaue Rekonstruktion historischer, FAKTISCHER
	www.filmszene.de /kino/b/blackhawk.html (7407 words)

	Amazon.com: Black Hawk Down: DVD: Josh Hartnett,Ewan McGregor,Tom Sizemore,Eric Bana,William Fichtner,Ewen Bremner,Sam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario.
		Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.
		The Director of, "Blackhawk Down" Ridley Scott, has been very clear that this movie is about a single mission, the men involved, and what they did.
	www.amazon.com /Black-Hawk-Down-Josh-Hartnett/dp/B000065U1N (2607 words)

	Delta Force - Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre for PS2 - Delta Force - Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre Playstation 2 - Delta ...
		Delta Force: Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre is a great tactical shooter and a masterpiece from Novalogic.
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		Black Hawk Down is a deeply flawed shooter that has a moment of disappointment or frustration for every moment of fun.
	www.gamespot.com /ps2/action/blackhawkdownexp/index.html (684 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Black Hawk Down
		Black Hawk Down is the story of one of the most successful military encounters in United States history.
		Black Hawk Down is not about world events, it's not about Somalia and it's not about a country ravaged by famine and starvation.
		Black Hawk Down is about the courage and bravery displayed by 100 young men who were placed in an unwinnable situation, yet fought for their lives and emerged victorious if only in their own eyes.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/blackhawkdown.htm (1078 words)

	Black Hawk Down (2002) - MovieWeb
		This film is based on the novel Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, by Mark Bowden, which tells the true story of the Oct. 3, 1993, Battle of Mogadishu during the Somalian Civil War.
		The attack resulted in two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters being shot down and the deaths of 18 Americans and hundreds of Somalians.
		"Visceral bliss: Black Hawk Down is bloody, dirt deluged gloom in buckets of realistic gore.
	www.movieweb.com /movie/blackhawkdown/index.html (284 words)

	Black Hawk Down: naked propaganda masquerading as entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Black Hawk Down uses many of the same visual techniques perfected in his earlier works, but with the difference that this is a film with a definite non-artistic agenda.
		In Black Hawk Down character is so minimal that even having the soldiers’ names on their helmets does little to distinguish one man from another.
		Black Hawk Down is an exercise in the manipulation of mass consciousness.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/feb2002/hawk-f19.shtml (2881 words)

	Black Hawk Down
		The book is based on dozens of interviews with the hundred or so Rangers and Delta Force members who spent the night pinned down in an armed and hostile city, as well as with their commanders, elements of the relief column that finally extracted them and a sample of Somali bystanders and militia.
		The battle of Mogadishu (sometimes called "the Battle of the Black Sea" after the neighborhood in which most of it occurred) was the climax to the UN-sponsored, American-led intervention in Somalia that began in 1992.
		They might arrive in Black Hawk helicopters and then leave with their prisoners in a convoy of Humvees and trucks that met them at the target, or they might arrive by convoy and leave by helicopter.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/bhd.htm (1770 words)

	Black Hawk Down
		Black Hawk Down is Ridley Scott's (Gladiator, Hannibal) adaptation Mark Bowden's popular book, which recounts the downing of an American Black Hawk helicopter and the attempts to rescue the crew.
		Black Hawk Down throws audiences into the middle of things, after a terse lesson on the political background.
		To be fair, the drama does intensify as the movie progresses and as attempts to reach the downed helicopters become more frantic, and Scott is able to whip up the tension to an incredible level by switching between stories.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/black_hawk_down.html (827 words)

	CNN - 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War' - March 24, 1999
		"Black Hawk Down" tells the story of that battle, from the eyes of the pilots and soldiers who struggled to survive.
		Their target was a three-story house of whitewashed stone with a flat roof, a modern modular home in one of the city's few remaining clusters of intact large buildings, surrounded by blocks and blocks of tin-roofed dwellings of muddy stone.
		Stripped down to their dirt-brown T-shirts and shorts, which is how they spent most of their time in the hangar, most looked like the pimply teenagers they were (average age nineteen).
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9903/black.hawk (3206 words)

	IGN: Black Hawk Down Review
		Black Hawk Down is based on Mark Bowden's best selling book of the same name, which in turn was an account of the ill-fated US incursion into Somalia in 1993 where 19 American soldiers where killed along with over 1000 Somali militia and civilians.
		Black Hawk Down is important in showing a horrible mistake made by the US that shouldn't be made again.
		Gritty, disturbing, and sometimes very hard to watch; Black Hawk Down is one of the most realistic depictions of modern warfare put to film, and as such is one of the best war movies ever made.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/361/361188p1.html (1410 words)

	BLACK HAWK DOWN
		Down also goes a long way to cleanse the nation's palate for war films, after it was temporarily wonked up by Pearl Harbor earlier this year.
		Down takes 15 minutes to explain the operation to yank Aidid out of hostile territory and remove him to a United Nations-controlled section of the city.
		Down, which is based on Mark Bowden's book, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, never really takes a stand on the whole Somalia thing, but it doesn't really show things from the Somali point of view either.
	www.sick-boy.com /blackhawkdown.htm (667 words)

	Blu-ray Review: Black Hawk Down \| High-Def Digest
		Given the tensions in our world today, sitting down to watch 'Black Hawk Down' was a very different experience in late 2006 than it was when I first saw the film during its theatrical release in 2002.
		As a viewer, it is hard to not draw parallels between the film's somewhat fictionalized events of a daring rescue mission during the Somalia conflict and the current armed conflict in Iraqi.
		In the case of 'Black Hawk Down,' only the six chapters of "The Essence of Combat" documentary are offered (none of the commentaries are available as an option).
	bluray.highdefdigest.com /blackhawkdown.html (2541 words)

	CNN.com - 'Black Hawk' a letdown - December 28, 2001
		Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Ridley Scott have pooled their always-questionable cinematic tastes to bring us "Black Hawk Down," a war movie that, pound for pound, is one of the most violent films ever released by a major studio (Columbia Pictures, in case you're keeping score).
		Virtually nothing is revealed about the people who are dying in "Black Hawk Down" -- whether they're soldiers or Somalian civilians -- except that they fly to pieces when struck by bullets and mortars.
		Undoubtedly, even viewers who walk out on "Black Hawk Down" will have been stirred by it, just as they've been stirred by a car accident or a bloody TV news report.
	www.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/28/hol.review.blackhawk.down (626 words)

	BLACK HAWK DOWN
		BLACK HAWK DOWN is the true story of the longest sustained ground battle involving American soldiers since the Vietnam War.
		As the trapped soldiers and downed helicopters are left stranded all rescue attempts fail in the hours after the attack.
		The shooting script for BLACK HAWK DOWN is at times very confusing as the story involves a lot of soldiers and details that it nearly becomes a victim of circumstance.
	www.screenwritersutopia.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=93 (1713 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Black Hawk Down, by Mark Bowden, Mass Market Paperback
		Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War.
		After three fl hawks hit, two of them crashing in the city the third making it back to base, many dead, even more wounded, and one captured, lives can never be the same.
		The fl hawk helicopters where thought to be indestructible in the conditions they where fighting in yet, thee where hit and two went down.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2WRI229NEO&isbn=0451205146&itm=1 (2398 words)

	BLACK HAWK DOWN - DVD
		Black Hawk Down is a living, seething animal, full of courage and heroism, stinking of blood and gunpowder.
		Black Hawk Down trusts its audience; it is perhaps the first and only time that this will be said of a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
		Predicated on a string of military objectives--hastily described, desperately relayed, and fearfully attempted--Black Hawk Down is a complex drama joined in medias res: a snapshot of the key conflagration in a conflict without an easily identifiable instigating factor and with no measurable solution.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/blackhawkdown.htm (772 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Black Hawk Down" review (2001) Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard
		Riding shotgun through an infamously botched 1993 military mission in Somalia, Ridley Scott's dusty, bloody, sometimes agonizing "Black Hawk Down" provides a realistic and cinematically astute taste of war, without the kind of nerve-wracking hyper-authenticity that makes you feel as if you might get shot while watching it.
		This skill is even more in evidence in "Black Hawk Down," in which he employs amazingly crisp and handsome aerial cinematography, and a distinctive color palette of turbulent cobalt blue, night-visiony green and incendiary orange to artistically ratchet up the imposing ambiance of battle commotion.
		"Black Hawk Down" focuses solely on the mission gone wrong, following several small groups of soldiers, including some pinned down in a bombed-out building by hundreds of trigger-happy militiamen, and some in a convoy trying to reach the crashed choppers but finding an ambush along every route.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/blackhawkdown.html (849 words)

	BLACK HAWK DOWN (R): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22004
		Portrayal of rightful and life-saving subordination was occasionally there in Black Hawk Down in pieces and parts, but it seemed such protocol was inserted as a duty or obligation to the unavoidable viewers who honored such integrity as they served God and country in uniform.
		Black Hawk Down is not a political movie nor does it try to explain our involvement in the Somalian civil war beyond Major General William Garrison's (Sam Shepard) disastrous attempts to take the Somalian leader, Mohamed Farrah Aidid and a few of his key aides who controlled Mogadishu out of commission.
		Much of Black Hawk Down was similar to the moulage in Saving Private Ryan (SPR) including a warrior blown in half at the waist and field surgery to clamp a femoral (hip/thigh) artery by the medic shoving his hand into the meat of the wounded soldier to fetch the retracted severed artery.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/blackhawkdown.htm (1857 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Black Hawk Down" review (2001) Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard
		Riding shotgun through an infamously botched 1993 military mission in Somalia, Ridley Scott's dusty, bloody, sometimes agonizing "Black Hawk Down" provides a realistic and cinematically astute taste of war, without the kind of nerve-wracking hyper-authenticity that makes you feel as if you might get shot while watching it.
		This skill is even more in evidence in "Black Hawk Down," in which he employs amazingly crisp and handsome aerial cinematography, and a distinctive color palette of turbulent cobalt blue, night-visiony green and incendiary orange to artistically ratchet up the imposing ambiance of battle commotion.
		"Black Hawk Down" focuses solely on the mission gone wrong, following several small groups of soldiers, including some pinned down in a bombed-out building by hundreds of trigger-happy militiamen, and some in a convoy trying to reach the crashed choppers but finding an ambush along every route.
	splicedwire.com /01reviews/blackhawkdown.html (849 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Fog of war
		In "Black Hawk Down," adapted from the nonfiction best-seller by journalist Mark Bowden, Ridley Scott is after the real thing: a grueling, relentless, moment-by-moment account of the 1993 battle in which two U.S. Army helicopters were downed and nearly 100 Special Forces troops were trapped overnight in a hostile section of Mogadishu, Somalia.
		On one hand, the film version of "Black Hawk Down," unlike the book, provides virtually no context for the famine and civil war in Somalia, and presents the citizens of Mogadishu as a teeming, vicious horde, an angry fl tide that engulfs the lonely emissaries of civilization.
		Inevitably, Scott and the producers have attempted to recast "Black Hawk Down" as a story of American military heroism, rather than a grim fable of a Murphy's-law mission doomed by arrogance, incompetence and sheer bad luck.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/12/28/black_hawk_down/index.html (1150 words)

	Black Hawk Down (2001)
		Hawk clearly is supposed to be a grittier and more serious piece than the usual Bruckheimer fluff flick, and that’s part of the problem.
		Hawk can’t decide if it wants to be Apocalypse Now or The Rock, and the film suffers for it.
		Black levels also came across as dense and rich, while shadow detail was appropriately thick but not excessively heavy.
	www.dvdmg.com /blackhawkdown.shtml (2106 words)

	Black Hawk Down Chapter 1
		A battle that changed the world, Black Hawk Down will alter how we look at the modern battlefield and the respect we have for those who fight on it.
		When you finish Black Hawk Down, your head will bow in memory and respect for all Task Force Ranger members.
		Not only has Bowden produced one of the finest pieces of investigative journalism of our time, but his vital, vibrant descriptions of this heroic yet tragic day in American military history place the reader and all of his senses in the midst of the chaotic action.
	www.nightstalkers.com /tfranger/blackhawkdown/review.html (544 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Black Hawk Down Movie Review
		The only thing left is pure, relentless Darwinism, devoid of any reasoning or argument: I have to kill that man, or else he is going to kill me. Black Hawk Down understands the cold truth of combat, and presents it with unshakable aplomb.
		Black Hawk Down was co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, arguably Tinseltown's most exploitative hack.
		Black Hawk Down is as good a film as he's ever made and one of the best pictures you're likely to see this year.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /blackhawkdown.html (974 words)

	GameSpy: Delta Force: Black Hawk Down Preview
		It was 1993, and the events of the Battle of Mogadishu would inspire Black Hawk Down, a book by Mark Bowden and a big-budget Hollywood picture by Ridley Scott.
		Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, itself an updated remake of the PC game of the same name, plays out in the first-person perspective, with players taking the role of a special operations soldier charged with protecting the peace in Somalia.
		Black Hawk Down creates a relatively realistic, war-torn Somalia with plenty of burnt-out buildings to provide cover, rolling hills to conceal well-armed militia, and rustic towns with lots of fleeing noncombatants.
	xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/black-hawk-down-xbox/606577p1.html (537 words)

	Black Hawk Down
		"Black Hawk Down," on the other hand, is based upon a real historical event and was a massive, complex production that is amazing not only for the logistical effort that went into staging it, but for the brilliance with which the film managed to organize a coherent narrative out of a nightmarishly chaotic incident.
		An American helicopter was shot down in the middle of the city and attempts to rescue its occupants led to a daylong fight against anarchical combatants -- one of the filmmakers describes Mogadishu as a city where everything that a gun can accomplish has been accomplished.
		Anyway, as much as the film is a testament to the American soldiers who died during the incident, the DVD is a more complete, permanent and accessible memorial to those soldiers, and it is worthy of that role.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1948279 (1305 words)

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