De Niro and Walken at their best

Rating: 9/10 (1 February 2012)

SPOILER ALERT!!!!! The Deer Hunter is definitely my favourite film.
This is my favourite film because the actors are fantastic, it is very well directed and the theme music is on another planet.
Christopher Walken won an Oscar for his role in this film and it was a well deserved Oscar. We see him transform as a person throughout the film who at the beginning is a guy who lives in the moment he can dance and really enjoys his life he is sad to leave but is ready to go to war. At the end of the film he seems like a person who is disillusioned with life and the events that occur in the war camp have changed who he is. After the Russian roulette scene it seems like he couldn't live normally again after what he had witnessed.
Robert De Niro is also fantastic he plays a man who is level-headed, doesn't open up much and is clearly stubborn. Robert De Niro and Christopher Walkens characters have an understanding between each other they look out for each other and are very close friends. The events in Saigon affect Michael (Robert De Niro) as well. He comes back with very little to say and goes berserk at his close friends as he struggles with his feelings.
John Savage is very good in this film as well he doesn't get anywhere near the same credit as De Niro or Walken but he plays a big part in this film. Steven gets married at the beginning and then goes to Nam with Michael and Nicky. Steven is clearly the weaker one out of the three and he is absolutely terrified in the war camp. He can barely breathe as Michael comforts him you can't help but feel sorry for Steve it is a very touching moment.
There are some fantastic scenes in this film it really is a spectacle. The landscape is unbelievable looking to me because I see nothing like that in Belfast. The director does a fantastic job where he gets everything right not a bad thing to say about this film. The film shows us how going to war and being captured has changed these three men and if you think the Russian roulette scene in the camp is tense you should see the second last scene it will blow you way.