Hollywood ending...

Rating: 5/10 (29 September 2007)

This was a decent account of the first of two major battles that took place over the course of four(?) days in the Ia Drang Valley. The only problem I have with it is the end- where Hollywood takes over and adds it's own, dramatized ending that, in real life, never took place. Instead of valiantly charging the enemy with bayonets fixed, while accompanied by a Huey gunship- which Snake Sh*t mysteriously flies in only one scene, Col. Moore's unit simply withdrew from the field as the other units relieved them. Watching the closing scenes, I thought maybe it was a dream of Col. Moore's- where he dreams of how to resolve the battle, but then the movie ends. I read the book years ago, way before the movie, and I knew this never took place- I just can't believe they put that scene in the film.