Take this movie for what it is, a war movie.

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2002)

I have read a lot of the other comments posted here and I have come to the conclusion that some of you people just don't get it. This was based on a book written by Col. Harold Moore. The dialogue, although not word for word, cannot be called cliche because these are the types of things that the colonel and others heard during the war. If you are sitting there dying in your buddy's arms, then what pray tell would say?? I think that we all would want our wives to know that they were the last person on our minds and that we felt that our last words should be, "Tell my wife that I love her."
The movie wasn't made to break any new artistic ground, it was made to accurately portray the lives of a generation of soldiers that have either been vilified by Hollywood or worse yet, ignored. Col. Moore has said that he liked the way that the movie has turned out and quite frankly that's the most important opinion to me. To hell with your cliches, that's what went down.
Overall, I felt that this was quite possibly the best war movie that I have ever seen. I came into this movie thinking that the scenes with the families would bring down the movie but I have to say that the film makers balanced these parts perfectly with the action sequences. Just a tremendous movie that really makes you proud of the true heroes of the sixties, the American Soldier.