Good, but....

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2002)

Randall Wallace wrote both the screenplays for We Were Soldiers and Black Hawk Down---the former was 138 min., the latter was 143 min. These were shorter in length to their competitors, Pearl Harbor at 183 min. and Saving Private Ryan at 170 min. I thought this length issue was the main factor in We Were Soldiers not having gone deeper into the characterizations. That was the problem, lack of focus on character. In fact, I feel this movie would of surpassed the other films HANDS DOWN if it had done so!!! It WAS a great movie, in spite of it all.