mel gibson at his absolute best

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2003)

Mel Gibson has had a fairly distinguished career in war films, Gallipoli, Braveheart, The Patriot, and recently, We Were Soldiers. This film is right on so many levels. I felt the men's emotions, which are often left out in the past Vietnam "classics". These soldiers were portrayed as heroic, rather than stoned, cruel, and violent, as they are portrayed in many other movies in the past. These men truly have something on their minds rather than who should be "fragged" next. In my opinion, this may be Mel Gibson's best movie ever, and one of the best Vietnam movies of all time. It was much better than Platoon, a movie whose characters I could have cared less about. We Were Soldiers was not only one of the best Vietnam movies ever made, it is easily one of the top ten war movies since 1990.