It could have been so, so bad. A Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movie about 1993's Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, the longest sustained ground scrap involving American troops since the Vietnam war (until events in Afghanistan knocked it off top spot). The trailer suggested it would be jingoistic, our-boys-kicking-foreign-arse rubbish; the bringing forward of the release date from March to January seemed to confirm it. A war movie on our screens so soon after 11 September? It just had to be blazing sunsets, billowing stars-and-stripes and boisterous high fives all round.
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