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We Were Soldiers | 
| Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  297 reviews
Sales Rank: 7572
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language)
UPC: 097363400264
EAN: 0097363400264
ASIN: B000069HSP
Theatrical Release Date: March 1, 2002
Release Date: May 11, 2004
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Based on the book by Lt. Col. Harold Moore (ret.) and journalist Joseph Galloway, iWe Were Soldiers/i 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, iWe Were Soldiers/i pays tribute to brave men while avoiding the pitfalls of propaganda. i--Jeff Shannon/i
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 Excellent, you must see it to believe it June 17, 2005
Micheline Anne Montreuil (Quebec city in Canada)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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
 New wave propaganda July 15, 2004
A. Hallaj (Damascus, Syria)
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
It is highly disappointing to watch Mel Gibson giving his high credibility (Patriot; Braveheart) as humanistic actor in this cheap propaganda. There is nothing in the movie but (a) 45 minutes of wasting time before going to Vietnam and (b) 90 minutes of violent extremist Vietnamese wanting to humiliate the west (by liberating their country??) challenged by few American heroes. brOpposite to 1800 Vietnamese, there were almost 360 Americans, supported by artillery, helicopters and extensive use of Napalm bombs by jet fighters. What is heroic on this? Why making a movie about it? Are we back to the 50's to celebrate American heroism of WWII?brAm glad that I saw the film on cable and did not specifically pay for it; the film is very boring, repeated and vague.
very good July 6, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Great movie... July 4, 2004
ThisThatNEverything (Columbus, Ohio United States)
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 their loved one had passed on. I recommend anybody to see this movie. I won't forget this movie for a long time to come.
Pure, unadulterated tripe! July 3, 2004
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Regardless of its inherent historical authenticity, this is bar-none one of the WORST war films I've ever seen. Sure, Ia Drang happened. Yep, it happened like this, and ya, the guys all wore these uniforms. And that's where it ends.brEverything else about this movie is hokey, flag-waving, crass Americanism at it's burger-munching worst! Mel Gibson, strutting about John Wayne style through artillery barrages - puhlease! And let's not forget neophyte "lifer" sidekick wannabee officer who eats it heroically - barfbag please... And finally, how about those syrupy-sweet, and likewise sickly simpering war-wives left back home. Never have I been subjected to such a barrage of base emotional manipulation. Indeed, I found myself wishing all these Yanks would die! What a putrid piece of garbage filled from top to bottom with every dead war movie cliche in the hollywood dust bin. Don't waste a nickel on this pure, unadulterated tripe. Of course, if you buy into the lies of American war "heroism" you'll love this. Die for oil, sucker!
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