A Film of Incredible power. Probably the greatest Vietnam Story ever made.

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2004)

Robert DeNiro, John Savage, and Christopher Walken play three best friends who live in Pennsylvania as steel mill workers with their other friends played by john Cazale and others. The film chronicles their lives as they deal with life before, during, and after the Vietnam war. The result is a very human-like, amazing drama.
Robert DeNiro naturally gives a great performance, especially at the end (If you've seen the film you know what part I'm talking about). Christopher Walken received an academy award for his performance, but I feel that john Savage was robbed of that award. Walken played a good empty minded person at the end, but i think that Savage played the best man-under-pressure-in-the-war type character that I've *ever* seen.
The editing is crazily quick at times but really provides an insight as to how quick and violent some of the battles of the Vietnam war were. the vietnam scenes are excecuted with expertise and actually succeed in making you, the viewer, feel like a forigner.
the power of this film is so great that all the other vietnam war movies look very fake in plot and especially characters. basically, "The Deer Hunter" is a character study, but it's one character study that you'll never forget.
****/****