Video review: Seeing the real chaos of war

RIDING shotgun through an infamously botched 1993 military mission in Somalia, Ridley Scott’s dusty, bloody, sometimes agonising BLACK HAWK DOWN provides a realistic and cinematically-astute taste of war, without the kind of nerve-racking hyper-authenticity that makes you feel as if you might get shot while watching it.

Watching this film, you can feel the chaos and peril that erupted around the Delta Force and Army Ranger units sent into Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, to arrest a notorious warlord.