The Deer Hunter #4

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2009)

The characters Nick and Mike in the movie The Deer Hunter are really close friends. Just before they head off to Vietnam Nick makes Mike promise him that no matter what happens, he (mike) would bring Nick back home, dead or alive and Mike says he will keep that promise. However, when they are shipped to Vietnam they are split up into different platoons. They re-unite after a firefight in a village in Vietnam. They are captured during the fight and are held in a POW camp in Northern Vietnam. At the camp they are forced to play Russian Roulette against the Vietcong. Mike realizes that in order for them to escape he and Nick have to play each other and they have to use three bullets. They escape but the two are split up again when they are being rescued. Nick is put in a Army hospital and Mike is nowhere to be found. Nick runs away from the hospital to try and find Mike. Nick finds mike in a room watching locals playing Russian Roulette, and Nick flips at the scene. He is kicked out of the room and taken away by a Frechman and Mike follows him but is unable to get his attention. Mike is shipped home meanwhile his buddy Nick is still in Vietnam playing Russian Roulette. Mike is unable to carry on with his life back home without knowing what has happened to Nick or where he is. He eventually travels back to Vietnam to try and find Nick. Mike finds Nick and also finds out that he is a sought after Russian Roulette player in Vietnam. Mike pays to play against him and Nick has no idea who he is. Nick and Mike have a little fight before sitting down to play. Mike keeps trying to talk Nick into coming back home but Nick has no idea who Mike is. Nick and Mike play a round of Roulette and nothing happens, then during the second round Nick shoots himself in the head. Mike was trying to carry out his promise to Nick and bring him home alive but unfortunately he has to bring Nick home in a body bag. Mike's overall goal was to save his best friend like he did in the POW camp and bring him home to his girlfriend.