Black Hawk Down [blu-Ray]

War, Action

Josh Hartnett	Eversmann
Ewan McGregor	Ranger spec. Grimes
Tom Sizemore	McKnight
Eric Bana	Delta Sgt. First Class Gibson
William Fichtner	Sanderson
Ewen Bremner	Spec. Sgt. Shawn Nelson
Gabriel Casseus	Ranger Spec. Mike Kurth
Hugh Dancy	Ranger Sgt. First Class Kurt Schmid
Carmine Giovinazzo	Goodale
Charlie Hofheimer	Smith
Chris Beetem	Joyce
Orlando Bloom	Blackburn
Kim Coates	Wex
Sam Shepard	Garrison
Ioan Gruffudd

Director	Ridley Scott
Producer	Ridley Scott; Jerry Bruckheimer; Harry Humphries
Writer	Ken Nolan; Mark Bowden
Cinematography	Slawomir Idziak
Musician	James Michael Dooley; Ilan Eshkeri; Jeff Rona; Mel Wesson; Hans Zimmer; Jimi Hendrix; Mike Patton; Scott Weiland

Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. 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. Based on author Mark Bowden's bestselling account of the battle, Scott's riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic. --Jeff Shannon