Williams is brilliant

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2019)

It's hard to imagine an actor more suited to a role than Robin Williams is to Adrian Cronauer in this film. He's wildly funny, subversive, and politically incorrect, but his humanity and heart really come through as well. My god, I miss him. Also funny is Bruno Kirby in his role as the not-funny Lieutenant who thinks he knows comedy. The film wisely avoided having Cronauer's relationship to the Vietnamese woman (Chintara Sukapatana) proceeding beyond friendship, which showed a level of maturity and respect in the script. More importantly, I loved how it managed to capture a sliver of the American experience in Vietnam, which gives the film a haunting, bittersweet feeling amidst all of Williams's electric improvisation. Great film.