Black Hawk Down
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: high
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The Verdict
Black Hawk Down is a grim, intense war film with essentially zero identity messaging. It portrays soldiers and combat in a traditional, heroic register and stays close to its real-events source. Nothing here registers as woke.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
0A war film based on real events with no established characters reimagined.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
0An overwhelmingly male ensemble military cast with no male-demotion messaging.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+ content present.
DEI Casting
5Casting reflects the real composition of U.S. soldiers and Somali militia; no checkbox diversity.
Preachiness
15Focused on the chaos and brotherhood of combat rather than political lecturing, though it touches on duty.
- "Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way" reflective line
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
10Depicts traditional military masculinity heroically rather than framing it as toxic; minimal critique of intervention.
- Soldiers risking their lives to retrieve fallen comrades portrayed as noble
Source Betrayal
5A largely faithful dramatization of Mark Bowden's account of the Battle of Mogadishu.
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Cast & Crew
Josh Hartnett
SSG Matthew Eversmann
Eric Bana
SFC Norm 'Hoot' Gibson
Ewan McGregor
SPC John Grimes
Tom Sizemore
LTC Danny McKnight
William Fichtner
SFC Jeff Sanderson
Sam Shepard
MG William F. Garrison
Jason Isaacs
CPT Mike Steele
Ewen Bremner
SPC Shawn Nelson
Orlando Bloom
PFC Todd Blackburn
Tom Hardy
SPC Lance Twombly
Ridley Scott (Director) · Mike Stenson (Executive Producer) · Simon West (Executive Producer) · Branko Lustig (Executive Producer)
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