After suffering through We Were Soldiers, I think I've seen all the war movies I care to endure for quite some time.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
13 Mar 2002
fresh:
As I settled into my World War II memories, I found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
14 Mar 2002
fresh:
Makes you cry for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who died so pointlessly with Geoghegan. And their orphans.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
22 Mar 2002
rotten:
The Vietnam setting looks authentic enough, but the action is as inert and unpersuasive as Gibson's attempt to fashion Bill Mauldin poetry out of his $20-million-plus smirk.
– Manohla Dargis,
L.A. Weekly,
1 Jun 2002
fresh:
Probably the best thing you can say about We Were Soldiers is that it does justice to an awful conflict.