Latest reviews about We Were Soldiers

Loufaugerburg says "This made me cry." about We Were Soldiers

Loufaugerburg — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:55:29 GMT

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SallyScooter says "Excellent movie." about We Were Soldiers

SallyScooter — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:09:25 GMT

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red850chik says "It's like you've seen it before, even though you haven't. " about We Were Soldiers

red850chik — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:47:14 GMT

Thanks again Mel, for a repeat of your last 15 roles. I suppose the downfall of any war movie is that you already know how it ends. But can the director and actors make you feel like you were there? I didn't feel that way with this movie....

robert1227 says "I thought it was an awesome movie." about We Were Soldiers

robert1227 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:29:53 GMT

we were soldiers was a pretty good movie with some graphic scenes not suitable for children,but goof enough for any adult who is intrested in historical or war movies. It also gives us a good look at how things were at the begining of the vietnam war....

Fardreamer says "An honest - if sometimes brutal - look at Vietnam" about We Were Soldiers

Fardreamer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:51:15 GMT

As many movie watchers will tell you, Hollywood's depiction of the Vietnam War has tended to be very uneven, often surreal, and (to the detriment of anyone with any serious interest in the topic) all too often told from a liberal and anti-war perspective that's heavy on "message" but light on the experience of the men and women who, for good or ill, went to Indochina in the service of their country. The only war film of the era that tried to counter the trend was the 1968 John Wayne vehicle The Green Berets, which even Tom Clancy, the best-known chronicler and supporter of America's armed forces of the late 20th Century, has dismissed as "a World War II film in Vietnam War trappings."

True, the liberal wing of Hollywood has produced several Vietnam War-themed films that are worth watching, if for nothing else than their artistic content. My favorite of these is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which is actually a retelling of Joseph Conrad's 1902 set-in-Africa novel Heart...

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jazzybean01 says "We who have scene war, have never stopped seeing it" about We Were Soldiers

jazzybean01 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:10:17 GMT

Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, and Keri Russell star in this award winning movie. The amazing story of these men, and the women who are left at home to carry one, is a must see film.

It's 1965 America is at war with North Vietnam and Lt. Col. Hal Moore, played by Gibson, must take his men into battle. A leader on and off the battlefield and a true inspiration Lt. Col. Moore and 400 men fight against 2,000 enemy soldiers in the battle of La Drang Valley. He promises that no man gets left behind, dead or alive and personally promised to be the first to step on the battlefield and the last to step off.
What you learn in this movie is that the army was not prepared to send officers and a minister to tell the wives of dead soldiers that they were widows. Cabbies were sent with wired telegrams to give death notices to the wives, no counseling, no chaplains. In the movie one wife took over the job to help ease the blow and lend support to widows.
What I liked about this movie is that it......

GeorgeChabot says "Vietnam - First Engagement between Americans and NVA Regulars" about We Were Soldiers

GeorgeChabot — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:52:49 GMT

We Were Soldiers (2002)

An excellent view of the early Vietnam experience was adapted from the novel by General Harold G. Moore, who had commanded the 1/7 Cavalry at the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965. The First Battalion of the 7th Cavalry (1/7 Cav) had fought the first major engagement between American forces and North Vietnamese regulars, as directed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Randall Wallace directed We Were Soldiers and Mel Gibson starred as Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Hal Moore, who led the battalion through its training phase in Fort Benning GA and also when they were posted as a unit to Vietnam. The 1/7 Cav was a new kind of unit; rather than the old fashioned horse cavalry of General Custer, this was Air Cav - they rode choppers to the battlefield. In fact, Moore is often shone pondering if the 1/7 will meet the same fate as their namesake, General Custer’s ill fated regiment.

The helicopters are the old workhorse UH-1 Iroquois, AKA Slick or Huey, driven by jockeys...

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bkovacs says "No plot but great war action" about We Were Soldiers

bkovacs — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:50:26 GMT

Looking for something to watch in HD last night, I stumbled across the movie We Were Soldiers on the TNT Network. The film, starring Mel Gibson, Greg Kinnear, Madeline Stowe and a raft of unknowns, made barely a blip on my radar when it was released in 2002 but it had an impact last night. This is a good war film that attempts to document a single battle in Vietnam in November 1965. It is based on a book called We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, written by a retired general named Hal Moore and a UPI reporter named Joe Galloway. (Galloway was with Moore's troops for the entire battle.)

The film starts as the Vietnamese are driving the French out of what was then called French Indochina in the 1950s. The Vietnamese are ruthless and the commander orders that all prisoners be killed, since the French are unlikely to send more soldiers if all are killed. A young Vietnamese soldier takes that lesson to heart and -- a decade later -- plans to punish the Americans similarly when US soldiers arrive....

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