As real as war gets....

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2001)

Director Micheal Cimino takes the sickness of the Viet Nam war and presents the horrors with images we can't shake away....
In the same nature as Apocalypse Now, we are cordially invited to live out the days of madness of three workers who were sent to Viet Nam and inadvertently brought back together in this horrific turns of events....
Filming the sequences all most in a documentary format, this film, in my humble opinion, exceeds Apocalypse Now, for the realism of the Vietnam war has had on the soldiers. We see a rough and extremely intense first part, but then the movie takes a radical turn, and becomes a sad melodramatic story.... But, well brought of course..
The events right after the war made the characters change their perspectives on life and the world around. And it is in this aspect which gives this movie the excellence Apocalypse doesn't have.
A personal view of post war trauma.......................
One detail was quite annoying, the music kept me really bugged.
As a musician myself, I tend to look for films that have a fabulous soundtrack, this one just really is poorly made and doesn't help the film.......