too long, director on LSD

Rating: 6/10 (14 April 2004)

The film (redux) is three hours and a 15 minutes long and that's just too long for this story. The director has gone crazy in this film with cloud curtains in all kinds of colour. The film loses its pace after the scene with the surfers. And why is Marlyn Brando so important you only see him at the end of the movie. The message of the picture is that war is crazy but that doesn't mean you have to make some surrealistic movie that isn't funny, shocking or moving. That river goes on and on. At the end you have a scene with French plantation owners which has the purpose to show you that this is a lost war not worth fighting but once again you have to make it shorter to capture my attention.