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Based on the book by Lt. Col. Harold Moore (ret.) and journalist Joseph Galloway, We Were Soldiers offers a dignified reminder that the Vietnam War yielded its own crop of American heroes. Departing from Hollywood’s typically cynical treatment of the war, writer-director Randall Wallace focuses on the first engagement of American soldiers with the North Vietnamese enemy in November 1965. Moore (played with colorful nuance by Mel Gibson) and nearly 400 inexperienced troopers from the U.S. Air Cavalry were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese Army soldiers, and the film re-creates this brutal firefight with graphic authenticity, while telling the parallel story of grieving army wives back home. While UPI reporter Galloway (Barry Pepper) risks his life to chronicle the battle, Wallace offers a balanced (though somewhat fictionalized) perspective while eliciting laudable performances from an excellent cast. Like the best World War II dramas of the 1940s, We Were Soldiers pays tribute to brave men while avoiding the pitfalls of propaganda. --Jeff Shannon

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, you must see it to believe it, Jun 16 2005
By Micheline Anne Montreuil "Micheline Anne Mont... (Quebec city in Canada) - See all my reviews
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The title should be : How to survive when you are 400 inexperienced U.S. soldiers surrounded by 2000 North Vietnamese Army soldiers? The answer is simple : stay together, fight to death and hope that you will received air support and ammunitions because you are stuck in a very bad place. This movie shows the difficulties of a war for the soldeirs when you are merely in a hand to hand fight. After this movie, I am sure that you will not wish to go to war in a place like that. Excellent movie
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5.0 out of 5 stars We lived thru this, May 8 2009
By Shirley Ann (Ste-Sabine, QC, Canada) - See all my reviews
I grew up during the Vietnam war. Watched it every night on the news. This movie brought it all back. I can remember going to St. Albans Vermont with my older sisters, during this time, and they were always disappointed that there weren't many young men around. Hell, they were all in Vietnam. I remember the little flags on the newly dug graves when we drove by the cemetary. This movie is the best on the Vietnam war that I have ever seen. The women receiving telegrams to let them know that their husbands, sons, brothers were killed in action is really heartrending. My husband didn't believe the that's what they did, just send a telegram. I highly recommend this movie for anyone who didn't live through it. It's a shame how the soldiers were treated when they got home, but that's another movie and Tom Cruise is in it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars very good, Jul 6 2004
This review is from: We Were Soldiers (Widescreen) (DVD)
the war scenes are outstanding, but the scenes with the women getting the cards were too sappy. dvd has good extras. the irish song was kind of strange at first, but it and the rest of the music was very good.
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1.0 out of 5 stars New wave propaganda
It is highly disappointing to watch Mel Gibson giving his high credibility (Patriot; Braveheart) as humanistic actor in this cheap propaganda. Read more
Published on Jul 14 2004 by A. Hallaj

4.0 out of 5 stars Great movie...
This is a really great movie. The war scenes were great as well as the acting. My heart really went out to the wives of the men when they started receiving the messages that... Read more
Published on Jul 3 2004 by ThisThatNEverything

1.0 out of 5 stars Pure, unadulterated tripe!
Regardless of its inherent historical authenticity, this is bar-none one of the WORST war films I've ever seen. Sure, Ia Drang happened. Read more
Published on Jul 2 2004 by bob37302

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best out there!
This film is fact based and true right down to the tears and, as some call it, "cheesy dialogues". Some also call it cliché-ridden. Read more
Published on Jun 24 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed messages in film
This is a solidly made war film, which at the start seemed to be a highly conservative take on the Vietnam war. Read more
Published on Jun 23 2004 by Kevin Brianton

5.0 out of 5 stars The best balanced and most important modern war movie.
This movie is the best balanced war movie ever made. And the most important to the modern audience. It shows that in the final analysis soldiers fight to survive, and help their... Read more
Published on Jun 21 2004 by William J. Dinwiddie

5.0 out of 5 stars Vietnam--this is how it happened
This is a very moving film that depicts the first major engagement between American soldiers and North Vietnamese soldiers in 1965. Read more
Published on Jun 16 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars No more than an average war movie made by Hollywood.
I won't compare this movie to the classics of the genre such as Full Metal Jacket, platoon or Apocalypse now, we're far from the perfection of those masterpieces. Read more
Published on Jun 13 2004 by Guiglou

2.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a movie that fogs the Vietnam War
I will admit right now, I am no fan of Mel. He is very talented as an actor and film maker; there is no doubt about that. Read more
Published on Jun 6 2004 by S. C Sochet

5.0 out of 5 stars For Real
A true war story and a good movie about a bunch of guys tuffing out bad policy in the battlefield. Luckily the leader of this "exercise" was a skilled in tactics... Read more
Published on Jun 5 2004 by Jorge Barbarosa

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