Ridley Scott has always been a master of striking visuals and he's found a good partner in Polish cinematographer Slawomir Idziak (both were Oscar nominated for this stirring war film). With its sharper imagery and full-blooded sound, this is a prime candidate for Blu-ray and it doesn't disappoint.

5 Stars easy.

Fantastic film but make sure your tv doesn't try and iron out the grain. That's how it is suppose to be.

MPEG-2 BD-50 / Region Free
Running time: 2:24:19 (Theatrical version)
Movie size: 37,233,334,272 bytes
Disc size: 45,638,838,470 bytes
Average video bit rate: 25.56 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 4608Kbps English
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps / French

#Audio Commentary-Mark Bowden (Author) and Ken Nolan (Screenwriter)
#Audio Commentary-Ridley Scott (Director) and Jerry Bruckheimer (Producer)
#Audio Commentary-"U.S. Special Forces Veterans '93"
#Making Of-"The Essence Of Combat: Making Black Hawk Down"
#Blu-Wizard

Bought this some time ago on DVD. If the movie is better on Blu-Ray; doesn`t matter. The story is REALY boring.
If you like war-movies where there is a lot of shooting, running, shouting and the story-line can be put into one word "war", then this is absolutely a movie FOR YOU. For those of us who enjoy a story, a plot and dont like a movie were the major parts of scenes are running, shooting, shouting and basically men trying to survive it is a movie to avoid. Despite good acting by some of the actors; stay away!
Just my opinion of course...

Black Hawk Down is one of my favourite war movie ever seen on screen. No question about to buy it on blu. The quality of the disc is tremendous, true fanstastic colors and powerful sound made this movie a true masterpiece. Story summary: US Marines and Delta Forces under a special mission in Mogadishu, Somalia: To hunt high ranking warlords. But the mission became a desaster. Enemies powerful guerilla forces were underestimated and could shot down 2 Black Hawk Helicopters. The mission failed and US Special Forces had only one goal: To survive and leave no men behind ! Ridley Scott at his best.