Extremely bad movie!

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2003)

This is probably Mel Gibson's worst movie ever. Randall Wallace, who also wrote PEARL HARBOR, among other movies, don't seem to understand that the most important thing in a film is the characters. In this film we don't meet any characters at all, just a bunch of nameless soldiers that gets killed.
We do meet one person with a name. That is Mel Gibson's character, Moore. But do we feel anything for him, or understand his actions? No, because Moore is a very boring and predictable person.
The violence is sometimes very graphic. This is the fact in other movies too, like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and PEARL HARBOR, but in those movies the graphic and extreme violence has a point. It doesn't in this film.

The movie WE WERE SOLDIERS is dull, boring and pointless. Not only is Randall Wallace a bad writer, he is even worse when it comes to directing. The music score don't help this, since it is totally dysfunctional and totally wrong. The music is good, but not for this movie. It feels like they took a score from some other movie and just stuck it in here.
So, what is my rating for this disaster? I put a 2 out of 10, because the film has nice cinematography, but that's all. The rest of this movie is totally boring and bad. Even HAMBURGER HILL is better than this awful movie. I certainly hope that Randall Wallace learns how to write, because he just can't pull a good script together.