Decent But Overrated Film!

Rating: 9/10 (28 October 2010)

If it wasn't for the first hour or so, this movie would have been a masterpiece. For the beginning scenes with the wedding reception, I was bored out of my mind. I was about to turn this movie off because I thought it would not get better. But when the Vietnam scenes appeared at long last, this was when I was blown away.
This is about a group of guys who head to Vietnam but they were captured and sent to a POW camp. Eventually, they were able to go to America. Since one of their guys were left behind, the character of Robert De Niro goes back to the horrors of Vietnam to rescue the guy.
The acting is pretty darn good even in the beginning. The performances by De Niro and Christopher Walken are amazing. Meryl Streep did a credible job too.
Overall, this is a good movie but it's overrated and way too long. If they edited it properly and cut down the length by at least a half hour, it would have been a masterpiece. I rate this film 7/10.