War movie with a simple plot

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2002)

I have not too much to say about this movie because I felt the movie didn't have to much to say. It's the depiction of a combat held in Vietnam by Hal Moore's company. And that's about it.
Yes, there's the whole brave-soldiers, american-honor message in it, but I just don't think the movie takes that message across. I stick to "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" (in that order) as my favorite war movies. Now those are movies that say a lot.
The thing that kept me from rating this movie with a 7 was the technical achievement of it. The sound is superb and the whole photography is amazing.
As with "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" the level of realism of "We were soldiers" is a little bit over the edge. Maybe film makers are trying new ways to describe the horror and madness that the soldiers are put through. I say we will never fully understand what, and why, these men experience on the battlefield, no matter how real the film looks.