We Were Soldiers

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We Were Soldiers

We Were Soldiers:

Based on a book written by two participants, writer/director Randall Wallace gives us a great depiction of the first major battle in the Vietnam war. In a war that nobody back home seemed to understand, We Were Soldiers shows us the soldiers' understanding of the war they were fighting. The orders for this mission were simple... "find the enemy and kill them," but it would turn out to be much more intense than any of them could have imagined. With war politics already in motion, they would have to rely on each other to get them through it. Col. Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) is the man charged with leading his men into this battle where he knows that many (if not all) of them would not be returning. Heavily outnumbered and tactically out of position, their battalion immediately faces overwhelming odds. Reporter Joe Galloway (Barry Pepper) manages to get his way onto the battlefield and is able to witness the events first hand. It turns out that Moore and Galloway would later collaborate to write to book We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, from which this movie is based. We Were Soldiers gives us the graphical depictions of battle, but more importantly it shows the courage, loyalty, and dedication of all those involved.

-Tso