Really good

Rating: Null/10 (10 March 2013)

I don't think I'm quite in love with this as everyone else is it seems, but it's very much worth seeing. The ensemble cast is great all around, and it's lovely to see Streep as the beginning of her career, pretty literally too as this marked her first Oscar nomination. De Niro is strong as the lead, but in a way both Savage and Walken outshine him in smaller more supporting roles, and the latter probes to the the film's heart. The Russian Roulette scene is definitely the best in the film, very effective and not afraid to show the horrors of such mayhem in the war. As it is, I kinda wish the ending had been perhaps stronger, or ended on a more powerful note, but it's still very good.