This is all Walken.

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 1999)

As it is a very long film, you can count lack of entertainment points against it. Even as a patient viewer, I would have rather seen it edited down quite a lot. Had it been shorter and more direct, I'd have loved it. The plot was very good. I enjoy movies about real people, and much of Deer Hunter is devoted to making the characters and their relationships genuine. But that's not what made it big.
Christopher Walken makes my blood run cold every time I even think of the movie, two years now since I saw it. My God he was so scary that I thank you every day that I was born too late to go to Vietnam. Holy Lord, please don't ever take our country's proud sons and turn them into monsters again.
To see this, the most memorable supporting performance ever, and to get a riveting perspective on war, I'd suggest you watch it. Not the greatest movie, but perhaps one of the most significant