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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 28 Feb 2002

We Were Soldiers intends to be stirring for its entire two hour and 18 minute length, but only achieves its goal for about a third of that time…

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By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Feb 2002

Indeed, while the battle scenes aspire to the grisly ferocity of Saving Private Ryan, this war saga often elicits as many howls of laughter…

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By Philip Wuntch (283) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 28 Feb 2002

The film succeeds as an homage to human spirit in the most shattering of circumstances…

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By Bob Aulert (32) for culturevulture.net (793) on 28 Feb 2002

Sledgehammer-simplistic... piling on the Technicolor carnage and employing just about every stock war film cliché imaginable…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 28 Feb 2002

Crisply and efficiently made...but ultimately its very old-fashioned earnestness makes it seem a little creaky,...like a cinematic nostalgia trip…

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By Eleanor Ringel Gillespie (205) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 28 Feb 2002

These men deserve a medal, but their movie could use a rewrite…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Feb 2002

The writer-director bestows honor -- generously, apolitically -- not only on the dead and still living American veterans who fought in Ia Drang,…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 28 Feb 2002

The in-your-face style of We Were Soldiers results in a suspenseful, intense, and exhausting cinematic experience…

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By Chuck Rudolph (215) for Matinee Magazine (292) on 28 Feb 2002

Exposes a great hypocrisy about many war movies: we honor the lives of those men who died for our country by showing them getting shot, impaled,…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Feb 2002

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 28 Feb 2002

These men deserve a medal, but their movie could use a rewrite…

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By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 27 Feb 2002

Captures the chaos..., the grave danger breathing down the neck of every combatant, and especially the heroism that resulted…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 27 Feb 2002

The battle, expertly shot by Dean Semler, captures the chaos of guerrilla warfare paralleled in Black Hawk Down and gives the film a scarring…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 26 Feb 2002

Relying on realism and never manipulation to makes its devastating emotional impact, the movie rings as true as the death of a loved one…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 26 Feb 2002

The film's major contribution to the Vietnam War movie is its willingness to view the enemy as human beings…

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By Scott Chitwood (152) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 19 Feb 2002

We Were Soldiers depicts the horrors of war, but also highlights the families of those soldiers fighting in battle…

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