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January 18, 2002

'Black Hawk Down' revels in realisism

By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Entertainment Writer

With "Black Hawk Down," producer Jerry Bruckheimer more than redeems himself for last year's drippy debacle "Pearl Harbor." And he can thank director Ridley Scott for that.

The gritty, in-your-face film, based on the botched U.S. military mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993, has all the scope and enormity of Bruckheimer's earlier war extravaganza, but it plays like a documentary of disaster.


 
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