Ridley Scott's ensemble action opus about a real U.S. military mission in North Africa gone wrong, is everything Michael Bay's '13 Hours' was not. 'Black Hawk Down' has characters you can care about, well executed action and events you can follow. It has a richness to it's cinematography, a fine script, some sense of weightiness. There is a reason this is regarded as the one of the best military rescue films of recent decades. It is also however extremely straight forward so I find I have little to say about it. The film does run long, and at times I had some attention issues, but the culminative effect is strong. ***1/2
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