Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
- based on novel or book
- ambush
- chaos
- militia
- prisoner of war
- wound
- somalia
- warlord
- famine
- arms dealer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Josh Hartnett
SSG Matthew Eversmann
Eric Bana
SFC Norm 'Hoot' Gibson
Ewan McGregor
SPC John Grimes
Tom Sizemore
LTC Danny McKnight
- William Fichtner — SFC Jeff Sanderson
- Sam Shepard — MG William F. Garrison
- Jason Isaacs — CPT Mike Steele
- Ewen Bremner — SPC Shawn Nelson
- Orlando Bloom — PFC Todd Blackburn
- Tom Hardy — SPC Lance Twombly
- Charlie Hofheimer — CPL James 'Jamie' Smith
- Hugh Dancy — SFC Kurt 'Doc' Schmid
- Tom Guiry — SSG Ed Yurek
- Brian Van Holt — SSG Jeff Struecker
- Steven Ford — LTC Joe Cribbs
- Directed
- Ridley Scott
- Written
- Ken Nolan
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 6,559 ratings
- Studio
- Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Revolution Studios, Scott Free Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
