Horrifying aspects of the Vietnam War

Rating: Null/10 (8 March 1999)

Alright, I do love the Deer Hunter. But I don't think it is the best Vietnam War movie. Platoon is the absolute best. But what this movie has that no other 'nam movie has is that it shows how the war changes three friends drastically. This movie perfectly shows how effective this was on the mind and body, and how horrible it truly was. We start of with a truly boring wedding, just shown to give more of an insight into these guys friendship. They go off hunting, and what do you know, De Niro bags a huge buck. The first act is truly boring, which makes me have to take it from a 10 to a 9. The wedding scenes are way to long. The next act goes about two months later, in which the buddies are fighting in the war with each other. They get captured and taken to a prison over a river. The Vietnamese force the prison inhabitants to play Russian Roulette. One of the friends can't take the game, and is thrown into a pit of rats, and would die if the other two didn't play. They manage to trick the Vietnamese and escape the floating prison. The movie's last act finds two of the friends back home, with the other still in Vietnam. De Niro goes over to Vietnam, and gets leads to find Walken. He finds him playing Russian Roulette in seedy bars. The two of them play a last game of Russian Roulette, and one of course loses......