The Deer Hunter

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2006)

I enjoyed the review, however, the wedding party was not for Stanley (John Cazale) and Angela as stated. The party was for Steve and Angela and one of the ironic twists was that Stevie admittedly had never had sex with the pregnant bride Angela. The child was Stanley's as he himself bragged. Stevie (John Savage) would then go to Nam with Nick and Mike and barely survive the experience.
I agree that Chrisopher Walken's performance was unbelievably good, especially the scene in the trailer when he talked of his love of the trees and looked into the air with a childlike innocence, but Deniro was definitely "the man". A messiah figure, a control freak, a one woman man's man, a character after the fashion of one Lucas Jackson (Cool Hand Luke).
The idea of taking the deer with one shot dovetailing with the Russian Roulette is a brilliant theme winding its way through the movie, to say nothing of the fact the three young men from Pennsylvania hailed from a Russian ethnic community.