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Article: 'Black Hawk Down' no 'Private Ryan' Unflinching war film a technically stunning, icily detached depiction of urban combat
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- January 21, 2002
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In theaters
BLACK HAWK DOWN, directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Ken Nolan,
based on the book by Mark Bowden. 143 minutes. Rated R.
Ridley Scott's unflinching new war movie, "Black Hawk Down,"
features one of the best re-enactments of man-to-man land combat ever
captured on a movie screen. But don't expect it to pack the emotional
wallop of the film it's most being compared to Steven Spielberg's
"Saving Private Ryan."
The film, which is based on Mark Bowden's 1999 best-selling book
of the same name, is technically stunning but icily detached, a
visceral orgy of guns, bombs and carnage that captures the madness of
urban combat and the bravery of U.S. forces, but which is so far
removed from ...
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