We Were Soldiers: Critic Reviews

By comparison, Oliver Stone's Platoon plays like the experience of a sensibly outraged man worthy of our sympathy.

Probably the best thing you can say about We Were Soldiers is that it does justice to an awful conflict.

As I settled into my World War II memories, I found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances.

After suffering through We Were Soldiers, I think I've seen all the war movies I care to endure for quite some time.

Makes you cry for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who died so pointlessly with Geoghegan. And their orphans.

One of the most violent movies ever released.

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.

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.

... A fitting tribute to all the men and women who have fought and died for their country -- and for each other.

Gibson wears a rictus of distaste which seems more suggestive of dodgy on-set catering than the horrors of combat.

Mais uma patriotada que mostra os americanos matando milhares de vietcongues, mas sendo mais 'humanos' que os inimigos.

...A gripping, fast-moving film that will be added to the short list of quality movies focused on the U.S. conflict in Vietnam.

Almost always competent, but never brilliant. Its textbook approach to moviemaking is so common in Hollywood war films that it can't be called new or enlightening.

I didn't mind the film's sentimental view of GIs. It's stuff like this that gets me crying, especially in times of combat like now. I wasn't the only one wiping tears away. It's hard not to when you're proud to be an American.

This is a good film; strong, honest, strikingly photographed (by Dean Semler) and appropriately devastating.

Mel Gibson's Vietnam drama breaks under the weight of its contradictions.

Not that anything's inherently wrong with a patriotic war movie, but there's a distastefulness in the film's simpleton view of mass suffering.

It's refreshing to see a pre-acid rock movie about Vietnam.

Presenta los hechos de una manera que recuerda a lo peor de la derecha republicana, asemejandose a la patetica y triste epoca del senador McCarthy y su 'caceria de brujas'

Another in a long line of ultra-violent war movies, this one is not quite what it could have been as a film, but the story and theme make up for it.

We were soldiers es la voz de los soldados muertos que reclaman el haber sido enviados a defender un pais, para luego ser simplemente dejados atras.

This is an incredible story badly told.

The first war picture in recent memory that owes more to John Ford than to Sony PlayStation.

plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure Hollywood.

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.