Soldiers We Were

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2003)

'We Were Soldiers' shows younger generations who have not seen or experienced war, the emotion and pain that our soldiers and their families have gone through, both in battle and at home. This movie shows that this emotion and pain went on for weeks at a time. Mel Gibson and Madeleine Stowe portray the Lt. Col. Hal Moore and wife Julie Moore with the love that the real Lt. Col. Moore and his wife have for each other. The emotion which they show or do not show is what makes this movie realistic. The director Randall Wallace tries to bring us to the battle, not the battle to us. Wallace also tries to show not only the emotion and pain of the American people, but also of the Vietnamese people. If we want to see a movie that is based on a true story about love and war, this is the movie to watch.