Awesome Movie

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 2003)

"It was a Sunday. November 14, 1965. The Vietnamese had never met the Americans in a major battle before..." And so it begins. One of the BEST war movies about the Vietnam War today. It has an outstanding cast with a wonderful director, Randall Wallace(Braveheart). It shows the battle of the Ia Drang Valley, aka, the valley of the shadow of death. Mel Gibson does an awesome job portraying Lt. Colonel Hal Moore, the man who led some 450 men into one of the most brutal battles of the Vietnam War. Many people called We Were Soldiers "just some other war movie". They're wrong. This tells of a real life hero and shows how the soldiers depended on eachother, and learned to call one another brother. It also shows how the wives coped with the grave detailes of war. I have read the book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young and alot of the things in the movie are very much like the book. This is the only movie I've seen that is all most exactly like the book. An extremely under-rated movie that excells above them all, I give it 4 stars!