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We Were Soldiers

2002

Randall Wallace

Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear ...

6.0

12,071

War. Action Recounting the true story of one of the most savage battles in U.S. history, Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 of his men touched down on November 14, 1965, at a clearing in Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam. All were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Black Hawk Down' was criticized because the characters seemed hard to tell apart. 'We Were Soldiers' doesn't have that problem; it identifies a few key players, casts them with stars, and follows their stories (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)."
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"One of the best war movies of the past 20 years."
		Philip French The Guardian	"Wallace's film rejects hindsight or any sort of vision. It's about soldiers doing their duty (...) The film's battles are handled with relentless realism"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Like the best war movies -- and like martial literature going back to the Iliad -- it balances the dreadful, unassuageable cruelty of warfare and the valor and decency of those who fight.
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An unabashedly pro-military look at the first major battle of the Vietnam era, has an impact that transcends politics"
		David Ansen Newsweek	"'We Were Soldiers' is, ultimately, a powerful and moving experience--once it overcomes its clunky, badly written and cliched first act.
		David Edelstein Slate	"A bloody, harrowing look at the early days of the Vietnam War (...) [It] makes you cry for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who died so pointlessly. And their orphans.
		Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"'We Were Soldiers' feels strangely irrelevant -- a well-acted, well-crafted and inconsequential visit to woefully familiar territory."

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