Very Favorable

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2002)

Having been a war movie buff since a child, `To Hell and Back', `Attack' (one of the most underrated movies, but at the top of the list of best war films) I have to say, `We Were Soldiers is one of the, if not the best Vietnam movies made. They stayed with original uniforms for that era, and showed the pride the members of the Armed forces possessed at that time.
I feel the script was well written, the actors did a more than superb job, and the special effects were excellent.
This is a very hard-hitting movie, which will bring back a lot of memories for many Veterans, good and bad.
It should be required viewing in every American High School, to show what the last generation of true heroes were like, how they hurt, cried, yet got the job done under extreme conditions. Something sadly missing in today's youth.
The war was wrong, we shouldn't have been there in the first place, Johnson was a egoist of the first rate, and the brass had their collective heads up in dark moist places most of the time, but if the politicians and upper staff realized that this wasn't their average line war, maybe, just maybe, there wouldn't be so many names on that Black Marble Wall In Washington.
The effects of the Taxi/Telegrams scenes were heartbreaking.
Overall, I recommend viewing this movie.