We Were Soldiers

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A Excellent Movie! This is much better to Saving private ryan very emotional the scenes are terrifying war will just give you an unstoppable nightmare I can't imagine how Vietnam war lasted for 20yrs. it's started 1955 and ended 1975 many souls sacrificed and many families losses their love ones. Let's pray not let this happen again never again.

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A true story of the US Army's new air Calvary unit improvised before the US fully committed to the Conflict in Vietnam. Not a big Mel Gibson fan, but I thought this was his best movie to date

WE WERE SOLDIERS speaks with integrity of who we are--our brothers, our sons, our husbands, and our fathers. The men and women who sacrificed their lives and their loved ones in theVietnam War are celebrated in this film. Mel Gibson should get an Oscar but probably won't, knowing Hollywood's notorious anti-war penchant. At any rate, everyone should see this film because it is in one word, WONDERFUL!

When describing his hopes for the film "Full Metal Jacket," (based on his war novel "The Short-Timers"), author and Vietnam War veteran Gustav Hasford said, "I didn't want to make another film that veterans are just going to go see and go, 'Oh wow, we've been ripped off again.'" That description fits "We Were Soldiers" to a T. The film has no flexibility, or even a purpose to it. One long cliche full of time killing action and glory speeches. Mel Gibson's cheezy accent will make you chuckle, though. This film takes an utterly true story and cliches the life out of it. A script compiled of every worn out battle trick ever. "We Were Soldiers" almost unintentionally brings disrespect to war veterans. You can definitely afford to miss this screen garbage.

My wife had tears during this brutal movie. It is no doubt a very intense and realistic suicide war movie in Vietnam. The story tells us much about the soldiers family, the morality and the hope in god. But it shows also how fatal and silly the adventure for a battle like in Vietnam could be. Congratulations to all the stuff. Mel Gibson did a solid performance. The director created a masterpiece that overtakes perhaps "Platoon". The music was very fine and melancholy. Great special effects and top picture. Why "We Were Soldiers" didn´t won at least one Oscar, Hollywood? I can definitive recommend it to every war movie fan and to all them who can see to very violent scenes. Don´t miss the other true story "WINDTALKERS". 7/10.

Cliché followed cliché and platitude followed platitude and not even the sometimes nice cinematography could reimburse for lack of story and bad actors, including Mel Gibson. What was Randall Wallace thinking when he made this movie, I'd really like to ask him that. There have been quite a few films about the Vietnam war and it's consequences not only for the US government but for every single soldier who was involved in that conflict over the years. So, why another conventional one? Maybe if that film would have had the bravery to tell that particular story from a more creative, a more daring perspective. But sadly, the director decided to follow old fashioned, beaten paths. The enemy remained colorless and characters flat, the choreography of battles was pitiful and sometimes killingly funny, as well as the little bit of dialogue there was. It's an uninspired film that never needed to see the light of day, in my humble opinion ...