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All teen and kid reviews for We Were Soldiers
Average rating based on 12 kid and teen reviews:
- 75% say violence is an issue
- 50% say language is an issue
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Very Violent Film
This is a very violent film. While not as violent as Platoon, it shows people being bayonetted, shot, stabbed, and burned alive. One man is disfigured by an incendiary bomb, while another is burned so badly that layers of skin fall off of him as he is moved to safety. People are shown being killed in slow motion, and are shown other times being shot and having blood shoot everywhere. The language is bad, there are over 30 bad words, including lots of f-words and swords.
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Crap film, ok for teens
Personaly thought it was an awfull film. There is much blood and gore and film is extremly violent although deaths are usually quick and painless.
There is very little swearing or sex for the genre.
Whille this is a violent film, there are far more innapropiate and more disturbing Vietnam films out there
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The best Vietnam War movie of all time!
This is an awesome movie! It is a realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. It is very gruesome at times. The violence is very extreme, and sometimes shown in slow-motion. Lots of blood and gore, limbs blown apart, bayonet stabbings, artillery strikes often showing both sides being blown to pieces (literally!) .
Long extended scenes involving medical surgery upon wounds. Not much language, about 4 F-Words and a few uses of S**t. This movie should be fine for most OLDER teens.
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Kid, 12 years old
October 4, 2009
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THE VIETNAM WAR WAS VERY GROSOM.IT SHOWS HOW IT WAS LIKE.
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THE VIETNAM WAR WAS VERY GROSOM.IT SHOWS HOW IT WAS LIKE.
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Kid, 11 years old
October 4, 2009
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THE VIETNAM WAR WAS VERY GROSOM.IT SHOWS HOW IT WAS LIKE.
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Very gripping and sometimes sad.
This helps explain what happened over there and point out mistakes that america made. This gave me upmost pride in these soldiers.
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Very good but violent
Well, first off, this is a war movie, so you should expect violence and language to be present, and for the most part, considering the amount of violence in this movie, most of it is not over the top graphic or disturbing. There are a few moments where it does become that way however, such as when a man is burned alive and it shows most of his skin being burned. There is also a lot of blood in this movie, but it's not over the top, just present. But it is not mindless violence either. This film shows how much of a tragedy war is, on both sides not just on the American side. The language is present, with several uses of f-ck, a dozen or so sh-ts, and a mild spattering of b-tch,b-stard, and 1 or 2 uses of p-ssy. This film is also unite emotional and sad, with an excellent performance by Mel Gisbon. His character, Hal Moore, is the embodiment of what a good leader should be. He is the "first on the field and the last off of it", refusing to leave his men and acting bravely to protect them and serve his country. This film also has many good messages about courage, selflessness, and patriotism. It's up to each parent to decide if your kid can handle the sometimes graphic violence and the language. If they can, this is an amazing movie I recommend it.
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Great Movie
I watched this movie when I was 10 and I liked it a lot. This movie, and braveheart are my two favorite Mel Gibson films that I have seen. It has some swearing and is fairly graphic at some parts, but i was raised differently than most kids, so it didn't bother me at all. I, personally think they did a very good job portraying the Vietnam War. It was sad enough and had perfect music to make you realize that the movie isn't good because of all of the violence, but rather because it shows what people have done for our country.
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Violent, but great, with a honorable image of US soldiers
Look, i don't know how vietnam was. Some people criticize this movie for making it seem too nice, but i mean as you can see the fighting was very brutal. Some people are just obsessed with making every soldier look like a crackpot hippie and it gets a little annoying in my opinion in some vietnam films. Yes, I'm sure there were some of those, but i don't see why there's so much emphasis. Anyway, I like this movie because it's not political or anything like that. It's simply a great war movie with stunning fighting sequences. Yes, it's violent, but at least it honors our troops, who though may have their faults, still gave their lives, unlike how some other movies portray them. My personal favorite Vietnam movie, and my favorite war film over all after Private Ryan.
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Mel Gibson leads this brutal war masterpiece. Not for kids.
We Were Soldiers is a powerful and thoroughly heart wrenching account of one man led mission through the heart of the Vietnam war, where many, many poor unfortunate soldiers died during the firefight. What makes We Were Soldiers such an incredibly memorable and special Vietnam war film is the fact that it is so completely set apart from the rest of the films in the genre. Now, for the violence section of the film, it is pretty much the same as all of the other films, with plenty of prolonged bloody war violence and explicit carnage, but what set's it apart from the rest of the Vietnam war films out there, although it slips slightly more into the territory of the 1978 masterpiece The Deer Hunter, is that it doesn't just examine the horrors of war, it examines the heart of it all, what the men really had to go through and sacrifice there lives, there relationships with there families, and leaving it all behind, just to die for there own country, which is arguably the biggest personal sacrifice out there, and that really pulls at the heart strings.Also very good in this film, are Mel Gibson as the main platoon Leader Hal Moore, Sam Elliot as his right hand man, and Barry Pepper as the journalist who is sent into the heart of the battle to cover all of the on goings throughout the extended battle. Now, despite the fact that this film would actually make for a very powerful and educational watch for older teens, this film is still definitely Rated R: Pretty much from 40 minutes on to the very end of this 138 minute film is a non-stop, extended and prolonged series of battle sequences, with dozens of shots of soldiers being bayoneted, blown up, dismembered, burnt by napalm and shot repeatedly with lot's and lot's of blood and realistically gruesome injuries and wounds. Also, there is some surprisingly mild language, including only a few uses each f--k, sh-t, g-dd-mn, h-ll, d-mn, p-ssy and b-st-rd. But, I still think that this film should be viewed by pretty much anyone who is interested in the Vietnam war, and for the ones who can handle the unflinching realism and brutality of the actual heat of the war. Reccomended.
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