Over-Hyped, Over-Long and Over on eBay Soon !!!!!

Rating: 1/10 (12 October 2002)

I purchased "The Deer Hunter" on the rumours of it being a "classic" and "one of the greatest films ever made" etc.
People who have passed these comments can surely only be accused of jumping on the bandwagon. Never having been a bandwagon jumper, here's my realistic assessment.
It is AWFUL. There is nigh on a hour at the beginning that could have been filmed in fifteen minutes tops. The Vietnam war scenes are painfully brief with some appalling editing of real footage inserted willy-nilly. The last, very long, third hour, is if anything worse. As for the infamous Russian Roulette scenes I began to feel that the Director thought he was on to something interesting and literally "did it to death".
Recommend it to someone you hate. It is a TRULY poor film which the artsy-fartsy brigade have adopted as one of their own. Well they can buy my copy from a famous online auction site from Monday.
1/10 (Only 'cos there is no zero on the voting.)