We Were Soldiers Review

We Were Soldiers is one of my all-time favorite movies. It is rated R, runs 138 minutes, and was released in 2002. It stars Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, an Air Calvary officer in the United States Army. He leads an Air Calvary unit that uses helicopters to hop in and out of battle during the Vietnam War. His unit gets pinned down by intense Vietcong units led by a fantastic Vietcong officer. The movie plays out to be an intense game of chess that is juiced out of its mind on steroids.

I love this movie because it has a lot of war images and techniques. I love watching any movie that has battle scenes and AK-47's, and this movie is no exception for my thoughts of a great war movie. It has fantastic images of grit when bullets, grenades, and bombs explode and send all types of shrapnel in the air. It also shows the struggles of the wives whose husbands are at war. It shows how they band together and help each other through horrible events. One of the most touching moments is when Hal Moore's wife takes a package of letters from a cab driver and begins to notify the wives of their husbands deaths. I would recommend this movie to anyone I knew if they could handle blood, gore, death, intense language, and graphic war images. If one could handle these images, then this is one of the greatest films ever created.