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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

We Were Soldiers
2002
**½
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein

In this self-important war film a highly respected Lieutenant Colonel leads his troops into one of the first major battles in Vietnam in 1965. The battle scenes are gory and well directed, but the film takes no stance on war, so it's hard to see the point of it all. When you go to war, soldiers die on both sides?