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65 out of 100

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  • Starring: Mel Gibson
  • Summary: Based on the best-selling book which details the events of the battle of LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. (Paramount)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 37
  3. Negative: 2 out of 37
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    One of the best war movies of the past 20 years.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    60
    Fitfully effective as a battle movie, and Mel Gibson does his rugged best to take center stage without seeming to. But the movie is self-righteous in a way that's frequently unseemly.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    It's a shame that the book "We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young" fell into the hands of writer-director Randall Wallace ("Braveheart"), a filmmaker who wouldn't recognize subtlety and understatement if they were to attack him in the street.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 40
  3. Negative: 5 out of 40
  1. poundmysnatch
    10
    The action never stops.
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  2. johnh
    8
    Well done & affecting, without major flaws.
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  3. GrahamM.
    7
    Made very well, and is extremely intense. It is good that a war film be made as violent and as intense as this, cutting the BS. Because that is how to perhaps shock some out of apathy and show how truly evil, and senseless war is. A better film might have shown both sides a bit more evenly, to better humanize each side, for the true tragedy of war is that one is not fighting demons on the other side of the battle, but rather a soldier much like themselves.… Expand
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