Storyline

A telling of the 1st Battalion, 7 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division's battle against overwhelming odds in the Ia Drang valley of Vietnam in 1965. Seen through the eyes of the battalion's commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson), we see him take command of the battalion and its preparations to go into Vietnam. We also see how the French had, years earlier, been defeated in the same area. The battle was to be the first major engagement between U.S. and N.V.A. forces in South Vietnam, and showed the use of helicopters as mobility providers and assault support aircraft.

Plot Keywords

battle, soldier, vietnam war, helicopter, exploding body, gore, severed leg, shot in the back, shot in the forehead, shot in the leg, shot in the neck, stabbed in the back, journalist, sadness, southern accent, photographer, first aid, army base, stabbed in the face, shot in the throat

Short Review

We Were Soldiers is, ultimately, a powerful and moving experience--once it overcomes its clunky, badly written and cliched first act.

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