We Were Soldiers

"'Black Hawk Down' was criticized because the characters seemed hard to tell apart. 'We Were Soldiers' doesn't have that problem; it identifies a few key players, casts them with stars, and follows their stories (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)." 

"One of the best war movies of the past 20 years." 

"Like the best war movies -- and like martial literature going back to the Iliad -- it balances the dreadful, unassuageable cruelty of warfare and the valor and decency of those who fight. 

"An unabashedly pro-military look at the first major battle of the Vietnam era, has an impact that transcends politics" 

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

"A bloody, harrowing look at the early days of the Vietnam War (...) [It] makes you cry for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who died so pointlessly. And their orphans. 

"Wallace's film rejects hindsight or any sort of vision. It's about soldiers doing their duty (...) The film's battles are handled with relentless realism"