Three Kings?
Blackhawk Down was a much better movie, if you're going for a modern warfare experience. Blackhawk Down does such a great job of creating a visceral cluster @#$# experience.
Blackhawk Down takes a lot of heat due to controversy over the way the Somalis are portrayed. That's automatically going to result in the movie being excluded from a lot of "top 10" lists. A lot of the crticism of BD say it is "pro-war" or that the Somalis were treated as objects. BD came across to me as anything but pro-war. It questioned the involvement of the US in the first place. If anything the movie is pro-isolationist policy.
The Somalis are portrayed the way they are, because the movie is written from the perspective of the American troops. The racism they express is not portrayed in a positive way.
The ongoing themes of the movie are always "what the hell are we doing here" and "how do we avoid getting further invovled".
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