Awful- hardly a classic

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2006)

I have no clue why this film was received so well. It has nothing going for it. There is hardly anything strong in Christopher Walken's acting, he had a very short performance- why did he win the Oscar? I can't see the point of the movie. The only point that was really illustrated was that people who come out of the Vietnam War were, for the most part, screwed up and brain washed. The wedding sequence is incredibly boring, it is truly a film about trailer trash America, and it seems that Robert DeNiro is the only one who shows good acting along with Meryl Streep. The only scenes that really give the film any hope, are the deer hunting scenes in which incredible choral music is heard. This film is not great- but it isn't bad.