We Were Soldiers

Rating: 4/10 (28 July 2006)

Based on a true story, a book called We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, this is quite an intriguing war film. Someone in a documentary about the film said that nearly all war films are not accurate, so director Randall Wallace stars as Lt. Col. Hal Moore and leads a bunch of recruits to the battle of Vietnam. You can see in this film why the Vietnam war was not only one of the biggest, but mainly one of the most unpopular, e.g. because of the amount of violence. The moments that mainly stick out are obviously the war, but also the letters to family and deaths of close friends. Also starring Madeleine Stowe as Julie Moore, Greg Kinnear as Maj. Bruce 'Snake' Crandall, Sam Elliott as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley, American Pie's Chris Klein as 2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan, Keri Russell as Barbara Geoghegan and Saving Private Ryan's Barry Pepper as Joe Galloway. Okay!