We Were Soldiers
138 minutes,
USA (2001), 15
Mel Gibson gets to play soldier boy again in this dramatisation of a key battle in the Vietnam war from right-wing hack Randall Wallace, writer of Braveheart and Pearl Harbor
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We Were Soldiers: Mel Gibson plays real life soldier Lt Col Hal Moore, a man whose credentials, and by extension those of the America he represents, are presented in the laboured 45 minute first act of We Were Soldiers, a film based on the book co-written by Moore and war reporter Joseph Galloway. Moore is as a conservative catholic family man (his kids call him "sir") and Korea vet...
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