You're a soldier (Hüsker Dü)

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2003)

"We were soldiers" is just another useless war movie about the Vietnam war and undoubtedly one of the worst war movies ever made. It contains an important number of faults. It's hard for me to believe that it's based on a true story because the story of the movie's got a Hollywood character and the vision of the Vietnam war remains very pedantic.
Randal Wallace's movie also ranks among the most violent war movies ever made. The battle sequences are very impressive and bloody. Moreover, Wallace obviously wanted to stabilize his movie between the fight sequences at Vietnam and the sequences with soldiers' women who inform themselves of the news involving their husbands. It's a logical but shaky method.
At last, an overwhelming music and a conventional end don't help matters. In the long run, "we were soldiers" is a very superficial war movie and by accumulating hackneyed topics and clichés linked to Vietnam war, it leaves indifferent and even creates boredom. To forget without remorse.