Black Hawk Down is the best war movie of the past 30 years because it's not preaching a message or giving you war movie cliches. It's literally an all out war movie from start to finish and it puts you in what it's like to be on the front lines.

This movie is packed with stars and it never once becomes distracting because Ridley Scott doesn't take 5 minutes for the cliched " I have a girl at home" shtick that other war movies do to try to give characters "depth." As soon as Orlando Bloom falls off of that helicopter you're experiencing the hell that the real Rangers and Deltas experienced and that's the crux of the movie. Only another movie that comes close imo is Dunkirk.