The movie definitely had an impact on me and I think it will definitely be a lasting one.

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2002)

As I sit here, I for the first time am having a hard time finding the proper words to describe We Were Soldiers. The movie definitely had an impact on me and I think it will definitely be a lasting one. From the moment the movie started I knew I was going to be in for a ride and I wasn't wrong at all. We managed to not only see some amazing actors come out of this movie but we also saw some amazing acting all the way around and, yet again, Randall Wallace has taken a trip through my mind and heart and has come out the other side leaving me a new person.
Personally a long Mel Gibson/Randall Wallace fan I knew what to expect from this movie and I was far from disappointed and in fact the movie was much better than I anticipated it being. The movie is based on the book `We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young," by Lt. Gen. Harold, I have never personally read the book. Unlike many previous Vietnam movies, this one not only plays hard on action but also emotion and I know myself I was close, if not in tears on a few occasions during the movie.
We see some very dramatic moments in We Were Soldiers this was aided nicely with great music and a few heart turning slow motion moments. The movie doesn't only cover Mel Gibson's role nicely but also plays very well on his surroundings and surrounding actors. We saw a few great actors in this movie above and beyond Gibson's role as Moore but also in his wife Julie (Madeleine Stowe) who plays the home front very well, with the position she plays we saw a great deal of emotion as she would handle the dispensing of death notices to the wives at home.
We Were Soldiers definitely etched a few key moments into my mind and definitely had an overall heavy impact on me, take for instance the huge way we see that in fact the true people who fight the wars are generally he ones who hate it the most. This movie will cover three days in the valley of death, three days in which Moore and his men are greatly outnumbered about 10  1. through out the movie we see key players loose there lives and we see the dramatic toll this takes on the soldiers, the movie definitely has a good sense of emotion mixed in to keep things from being strictly just another war movie.
Overall the movie was great, I couldn't recommend it highly enough, if you're a fan of Mel Gibson's or enjoy the directing Randall Wallace delivers then you should enjoy We Were Soldiers depiction of this battle. In all, the movie was great, and definitely worth the money! With the big actors this movie employed it's no surprise we see such an amazing movie here, definitely comparable to Black Hawk Down but that's not going to happen in this review, this movie deserves to be on it's own plateau in my mind not only for the solid acting but also because it really hit a key with me, perhaps it was the acting, the patriotism, or maybe the directing but something about this movie blew my mind.