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• Complete Monster: Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Though he never appears on-screen, the film portrays militia under his direct command using mass starvation as a tool to amass power. Such conduct places him firmly within this category.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The American failure in Somalia in 1993 convinced Osama bin Laden that America's will could be broken, and as such he began ordering more direct attacks on American interests. This film was shot in the summer of 2001 and released in December of the same year.
• HSQ: Preposterously high. You may have to take a break at some point.
  • One review described this movie as "like Saving Private Ryan except without the slow parts."
• Narm: The shot of a Somalian Running toward the downed Black Hawk, arms flailing wildly, and shouting, assuming that all of its occupants are dead just as one of its occupants comes to and shoots him dead. It's funnier if you see it.
• Squick: When Eversman and one of the medics have to reach into a soldier's leg wound to try and clamp his femoral artery to stop his bleeding.