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7.2
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Timothy Goheen
rated 5

The beginning is boring as fuck but gets good halfway through

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Cast & Crew

Randall Wallace
Director
Mel Gibson
As Lt. Col. Hal Moore
Daniel Roebuck
As Medevac CO
George Cheung
As NVA Officer (uncredited)
Sam Elliott
As Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley
Clark Gregg
As Capt. Tom Metsker
Jon Hamm
As Capt. Matt Dillon
Lyndon B. Johnson
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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"We Were Soldiers" is a powerful and intense war film that depicts the harrowing true story of the first major battle between American forces and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. The film follows Lt. Colonel Hal Moore, played by Mel Gibson, and his 400 soldiers as they are dropped into the Ia Drang Valley, where they are vastly outnumbered by a veteran North Vietnamese army division of 4,000 men. Despite being trapped and desperately outnumbered, Moore and his men manage to hold off the North Vietnamese with artillery, mortars, and helicopter airlifts of supplies and reinforcements. The film's climax features a large-scale attack on the American position, which is repelled with the help of air support. The film ends with Moore's troops regrouping and securing the area, but not before suffering heavy casualties. The final scene shows an older Moore visiting the Vietnam War memorial and looking at the names of the soldiers who fell at Ia Drang. Overall, "We Were Soldiers" is a moving tribute to those who fought in this brutal conflict that would become known as one of America's most controversial wars in history..

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as We Were Soldiers include Black Hawk Down, Kokoda, The Patriot (Extended Cut) (2000), Bang Rajan, King Arthur, The Patriot.

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We Were Soldiers was released in theaters on March 1, 2002.