We Were Soldiers
We were soldiers tells the real story of the first big battle among the United States and North Vietnamese forces and the tales of all the soldiers involved.
1977, North Carolina, USA
23 March 1968, Kokomo, Indiana, USA
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
21 October 1961, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
11 January 1982, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
20 December 1996, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
19 February 1970, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
8 March 1991, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1979, South Carolina, USA
1 July 1963, Bronx, New York, USA
14 February 1975, Eugene, Oregon, USA
27 August 1957, Dalat, Vietnam
1 December 1952, Waterloo, Iowa, USA
1974, Binh Duong, Vietnam
7 January 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
28 April 1971, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
4 March 1963, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
11 November 1980, Mt. Vernon, New York, USA
1 July 1958, Manassas, Virginia, USA
17 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1993, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
January 07, 2004
... A fitting tribute to all the men and women who have fought and died for their country -- and for each other.
October 19, 2003
Gibson wears a rictus of distaste which seems more suggestive of dodgy on-set catering than the horrors of combat.
July 25, 2003
Mais uma patriotada que mostra os americanos matando milhares de vietcongues, mas sendo mais 'humanos' que os inimigos.
December 22, 2006
The war genre, vigorously energized with Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, takes several steps backward with this old-fashioned moralistic saga, a tribute not only to the soldiers in combat in Vietnam but also to the homefront.
March 14, 2002
As I settled into my World War II memories, I found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances.
December 29, 2010
One of the most violent movies ever released.
March 13, 2002
After suffering through We Were Soldiers, I think I've seen all the war movies I care to endure for quite some time.
June 01, 2002
The Vietnam setting looks authentic enough, but the action is as inert and unpersuasive as Gibson's attempt to fashion Bill Mauldin poetry out of his $20-million-plus smirk.
December 06, 2004
I was impressed by Wallace's emphasis of Moore's faith, but the violence struck me as excessive, taking valuable time that could have been used to develop characters.
March 22, 2002
Makes you cry for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who died so pointlessly with Geoghegan. And their orphans.
March 05, 2002
By comparison, Oliver Stone's Platoon plays like the experience of a sensibly outraged man worthy of our sympathy.
July 20, 2002
Probably the best thing you can say about We Were Soldiers is that it does justice to an awful conflict.
