Absolute masterpiece!

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2007)

The Deer Hunter is just plain magnificent! I believe it's gotta be one of the best war movies out there! The acting by DeNiro is absolutely top-notch and perhaps unrivaled to this day in any picture I have ever seen! (my personal opinion of course). Christopher Walken's performance was voted in Premiere Magazine's top 100 performances of all time as No. 88 and it certainly deserves it's high ranking. Meryl Streep does a truly fine job too playing the naive and simple suburban girl in love with Nick (Walken's character).
The style of the movie is very calm except for when war & it's consequences play out! The scenes depicting Micheal (DeNiro's character) & Nick's experiences in the war are very disturbing, yet they are so very powerful, and have (as Quentin Tarantino put it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0u4POopKo0) some of the best cinematic shots ever to be seen in movie history!!! I couldn't agree more with QT! Plain and absolutely fantastic direction, script and photography make this movie a 10/10. A true war classic to be remembered, depicting the horrors & ugly sides to wars and soldier's often naive, yet patriotic, initial view towards them.