Caught in a tight situation, loyal veteran Navy Lt. Waters must find a way to save 70 refugees when the person he's asked to go rescue refuse to leave except he helps the others.
30 December 1966
22 March 1975, Santa Barbara, California, USA
15 January 1946, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
12 June 1962, London, England, UK
26 July 1976
September 23, 2007
The movie regales us with the heroics of a (mostly) white American platoon picking off anonymous black savages.
March 12, 2003
Fuqua ... can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior.
March 11, 2003
This Black Hawk Down theft is a trial by cliché.
April 22, 2003
Will a thinking audience really buy the image of helpless, grateful people bestowing kisses and victory songs upon Willis as the representative of all things American: power, guts, compassion?
March 09, 2003
In a movie with so much graphic suffering by innocent Africans, it's a bit disconcerting that so much loving attention is paid to Bruce Willis's anguished mug.
July 06, 2004
A tale of courage so facile and off-handedly racist that only Hollywood could have invented it. It confuses slaughter with action, and it's stupid, too.
January 06, 2004
... Fuqua relies on old-fashioned, gung-ho heroics and the stern face of Bruce Willis to carry the show.
January 29, 2005
...an unapologetic paean to the nobility of the American foot solider.
May 28, 2005
A huge screaming bore of a war flick with a big plate of pretentiousness on the side.
April 04, 2003
Deserves the bad reviews and the lackluster earnings it has accumulated thus far.
December 28, 2010
Shamelessly one-sided with cheesy wooden dialogue.
