Mel Gibson, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
DVD Release Date: August 20, 2002
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July 6, 2009Revisiting this one some seven years after it's theatrical release I find that time has neither lessened nor strengthened its impact. Historically speaking, the events portrayed here are immensely important and heroic. From a technical/theatrical point of view, We Were Soldi...( read more)
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May 14, 2009"They went to war because their country ordered them to, but in the end they fought not for country or their flag, they fought for each other."
You wanna know why I watched this film in the first place, 7 years ago? Because of the helicopters. Not because of Mel Gibson or the ge...( read more) -
August 21, 2008In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnames...( read more)
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February 20, 2008Hollywood once more goes through the "war is hell" motions and gives Vietnam the Saving Private Ryan treatment. I cannot criticize the skillful representation of the battlefield, but pretty pictures of men being artfully eviscerated by slow motion gunfire does not a war movie mak...( read more)
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November 3, 2009Tipica pelicula yanqui donde se tiran flores a si mismos y se sienten heroes matando a inocentes.
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October 30, 2009merita 5 stele,este o adevarata arta a spiritului de sacrificiu si a camaraderiei.
Critic Reviews
March 22, 2002
David Edelstein, Slate
March 1, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Mel Gibson fights the good fight in Vietnam in director Randall Wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency. full review
March 1, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Though it falls short, it's an ambitious movie that ranges from intense peaks to embarrassing lows. full review
March 1, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
For much of its length, the movie consists of battle scenes. They are not as lucid and easy to follow as the events in 'Black Hawk Down,' but then the terrain is different, the canvas is larger, and t... full review
February 28, 2002
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Like the best war movies -- and like martial literature going back to the Iliad -- it balances the dreadful, unassuageable cruelty of warfare and the valor and decency of those who fight. full review
February 27, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Has an impact that transcends politics and some dramatic overreaching by writer-director Randall Wallace. full review
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January 3, 2008...We will all come home together. So help me, God
>>That was the best part in the movie!!
it was wonderfully preformed by Mel Gibson
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January 3, 2008
Look around you. In the 7th cavalry, we've got a captain from the Ukraine; another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians. Jews and Gentiles. All Americans. Now here in the states, some men in this unit may have experienced discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the valley of the shadow of death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is, or by what name he calls God. They say we're leaving home. We're going to what home was always supposed to be. Now let us understand the situation. We are going into battle against a tough and determined enemy.I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive,..
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June 8, 2007This site is full of teens that think they know history because they've seen a few movies. Try picking up a book occasionally...
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April 30, 2007i viewed this movie in a different angle..of course it is well acted..and in historical perspective ..it is based on a true story..movie contains bloodletting using weapons and tactics never tried before..in order to achieved and win a battle...winning a battle here is to kill as many enemies as you can..and so in all wars for the losers and the victorious...what can never be measured is the sufferings and pain that is being experienced for all from the combatants to the civilians..what stand out here is the commanders concern for there soldiers..only if the leaders of countries become truly concerns for thier people..then wars could be avoided..
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April 19, 2007For the person who did say it was a WW2 film, I can see where they are coming from. Apart from the technical details (different guns, clothes, enemy), this was directed very much in the style of a WW2 film; with a style not used in any post WW2 film I have ever seen, and I did not like it at all. I was presented in the mindset of the army generals at the time, i.e if we kill more gooks than kill us, we'll win the war. This message is the very core of the film, the Vietcong were evil and cunning, yet stupid enough not fire at a load of GI's just metres away; and of course, God will help the 'good guys' to the end. This attitude pisses me off to the nth degree, and when it's echoed in a film many years later, where we have learned that Guerrilla warfare was a far better tactic in the dense jungle of Vietnam and even most places, I can't tell you how annoyed I am. Furthermore, the 'victorious' GI's was wiped out from am Ambush later in the week. It didn't say that in the film
The first half was incredibly boring as well
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April 7, 2007hamburger hill and platoon are better vietnam movies, first blood was stupid movie too, john rambo would have been killed fast if he was actually in vietnam war
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April 7, 2007
i thought this movie stunk for a vietnam era movie, i thought this stunk, and to the dork who thought this was a world war 2 movie, lol oh my gawd you are STUPID!!!!!!
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