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In 1954, the French Army's Group Mobile 100, on patrol during the First Indochina War, is ambushed by Viet Minh forces. Viet Minh commander Nguyen Huu Anorders his soldiers to "kill all they send, and they will stop coming". Eleven years later in 1965, the United States is fighting the Vietnam War. US Army Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore is chosen to ...
In the source book, We Were Soldiers Once… And Young, Hal Moore complains, "Every damn Hollywood movie got [the Vietnam war] wrong." The director, Randall Wallace, said that he was inspired by that comment and became "determined to get it right this time." The film's final version got many of the facts of the book presented onto film but is not ent...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 64% of 146 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "The war cliches are laid on a bit thick, but the movie succeeds at putting a human face on soldiers of both sides in the Vietnam War." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 65 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, gave W...
Involved combatant's response
Hal Moore, who had long been critical of many Vietnam War films for their negative portrayals of American servicemen, publicly expressed approval of the film and is featured in segments of the DVD. Retired Colonel Rick Rescorla, who played an important role in the book (and was pictured on the book's cover), was disappointed – after reading the script – to learn that he and his unit had been left out of the film. [citation needed] In one key incident, the finding of a vintage French bugle on...
Box office
We Were Soldiersgrossed $78.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $37.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $115.4 million, against a budget of $75 million.
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