Film Profile: We Were Soldiers - (2002)
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"400 U.S paratroopers. 4,000 Vietnamese soldiers. 12,000 miles away from home. 1 man led them into battle."
- Director: Randall Wallace
- Genre: Action, History, War
- Studio: Wheelhouse Entertainment
- Subtitled | Widescreen | Duration: 140 Mins
Overview:
This formulaic, gung-ho war drama is based on the bestselling memoir by war correspondent Joseph Galloway and Lt General Harold G Moore, who led a battalion of the Seventh Cavalry into the first major confrontation of the Vietnam War in November 1965. Randall Wallace's second film as director is an overlong account of how Moore's men stood their ground in the Ia Drang river valley against overwhelming numbers of North Vietnamese soldiers, but this is no American equivalent to Zulu. Instead, the film earnestly treads familiar ground as Wallace manipulates the audience between violent action, sentimental pep talks and scenes from the homefront as the telegrammed notices of death begin to arrive. This is a straightforward tribute to the fighting man, devoid of political comment or historical background and with no real characterisation - although Sam Elliott does wonders with his few lines as Moore's second in command. Mel Gibson is mesmerising as the valiant Moore, but this is a portrait of war in the style of The Green Berets rather than Platoon, and his role is too flawlessly heroic to ring entirely true.
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