Black Hawk Down gets assessed for realism by an urban warfare expert, who gives the film high marks for staying true to the reality of combat.
An urban warfare expert gives praise to Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, praising the film for its realistic depiction of combat. Released in 2002, Black Hawk Down told the true story of a disastrous United State military raid on Mogadishu, Somalia, in which a black hawk helicopter crashed in enemy territory, leading to a desperate fight in the middle of the city. Receiving high marks from critics , Black Hawk Down went on to be a hit at the box office, grossing $173 million.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT It's very accurate to be behind a wall and you pop out for a second to throw a grenade like that. Where he's throwing the grenade is a little off. Grenades have a timer in them, basically, so they don't blow up in your hand. Once it hits the target. It's not throw, explode.
Crossing the street can actually be one of the most vulnerable things of urban warfare because there's so many angles, so many windows, so many doorways which you can get shot. So we teach things like throwing smoke out there so that people can't see you and going one at a time and mixing up the speed at which you're going.
That's actually an iconic scene, when he says, "Stay off the wall." That was real advice because once the bullets are hitting the walls, then they travel down the wall kind of like a bowling alley, and it can hit if you're standing on that. I wouldn't say it happens in all, because every city is different. You have mud, cement, glass, metal is a little different, but that's real.
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