Hollow, self important claptrap

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2002)

Let's see now. A wedding, a deer hunt, Russian roulette; and
three steelers go to War. For 182 minutes of empty pseudo
spectacle, which makes the fatal error of making itself seem
Important, when in fact it is a pretentious, incoherent, repellent
film, which soon becomes an ordeal to sit through. This is what I
felt on March 9, 1979; my opinion has not changed, and I have not
seen it again. Presumably the most forgotten Best Picture winner of the 70s, and
deservedly so. Plenty of competition, though. That stupid Sting
movie, for one.