you can not make a movie that be nothing more than a two hour shoot out . it just doesn not work . apart from the fact that the hock of the fight wear off after a while and have a battle scene that take up 75 % of the film run time leave no room for character development and hence you could not give a monkey who live or who die . this be the same problem with we be soldier and where all of the storyline be condense into the first 30 minute and free the remain screen time to be dedicate to nothing but non stop gratuitous violence . you need to even out the action scene with advancement in the plot to give the story any meaning and to keep your audience attention . what even bad be that the battle aren not even that impressive . certainly the visuals and sound and edit be well in both we be soldier and save private ryan ( a film make some year ago now ) . there be obviously certain historic issue that need to be address and but when a movie be this dull anyway and who care . any film that have me fight to stay awake on a friday night must have something seriously wrong with it . negative .