Incredible

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2009)

When I first heard that the movie would be coming out I said "Well here is another Vietnam flick which goes from realistic to people becoming heroes by defeating armies alone" but boy I was wrong! It humanized all characters and you felt as though the unexpected was out to grab you. The movie took you to all kinds of perspectives, the Vietnamese, the war at home, and off course the front from the American soldiers. It was a movie which covered it all and everything you had to see was shown, the brutality, the horrors, the bonds of friends, and the loss of life. It leaves you with a really new image of the war and you actually sit there and ask yourself how could men have possibly survived with such scenes running through their minds. I would say the film is the closest thing to perfectly depicting those scenes but we all acknowledge that true images of war cannot possibly be shown on the big screen. However if I can choose any movie which is close to it, I'd have to say We Were Soldiers is that movie. 10/10