A mediocre film at best

Rating: Null/10 (13 March 2002)

While We Were Soldiers is entertaining let us not try and place this movie among the best of its genre. War movies have become a Saving Private Ryan clone of recent years, Soldiers and black hawk down being the best examples. These movies try and deliver the audience into the horrors of warfare while maintaining the morality and honor of the soldier. While most movie-goers would agree that this is a noble cause, movies exist for entertaining purposes, not as a soapbox. We Were Soldiers delivers too much rhetoric of god and country while delivering very little in plot or character development. Outside of mel gibson, very little is discussed of these men. All we are told is that they are god fearing, family loving, glad to die for their country, good old boys. The writer and producer should have stepped back on the morality and stepped forward on the plot. I do not argue with the message of the movie, just the way in which it is delivered. Skip this one and rent full metal jacket.