Oscar winning war/drama

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2007)

Dramatic film about lives in a small industrial town in middle-America, and how the Vietnam war individually affects those lives. Good performances all round, but especially Christopher Walken who always manages to fascinate. Robert De Niro is in good form as always, and is well supported by John Savage and Meryl Streep.
Michael Cimino's movie is over-long, spending too much time on petty, if quite fun things, like the wedding at the beginning of the film. Yet we see far too little of 'Nam' itself, whose scenes are powerful and tense, the highlight of the film.
A well acted, poorly edited movie, with bursts of directorial brilliance.
Monday, June 24, 1991 - Video