Not what I expected from an Oscar winner

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2000)

After watching this movie, I just kind of said, 'Huh?' Character development or not, the wedding scene was much longer than it needed to be, then to top things off, we see five minutes of fighting before they end up in a prison camp. I had no idea how long they'd been over there before they were captured. Don't ask me why, but that would have helped to know.
The scenes with the Russian roulette were intense, but after realizing that the second half of the movie was basically one big game of Russian roulette, it got kind of old. OK, so I was only a kid when this war took place, I apologize, I know it was terrible over there, but I just don't think this movie is deserving of what it got. Like Deliverance and the sodomy scene, this was one of those movies where all everybody seems to remember it for was the roulette scenes. Now I understand why.