Presented less like a Viet Nam movie, but more like WW2

Rating: 7/10 (19 September 2002)

This film reminded me the film "Tora, Tora, Tora!" rather than the other Viet Nam movies that I have seen. In "We were Soldiers" they actualy let you see the war from both sides. Rather than the NVA as a group of silhouettes relentlessly advancing with seamingly no agenda, you watch as the officers plan the attacks as their soldiers write in their journals and think of their families. You see the other side of the battle where they were scared but still attacked for their country.
I think that showing both sides of the battle makes you realize that they were not shooting faceless people but rather husbands, sons, fathers, and that they would rather be home and happy just like anyone else, but that circumstances placed them in a situation to where they had to fight or die like their counterparts. Then watching the American soldier's wives after their husbands died makes you wonder if the NVA wives were told in a similar manor.