One shot kill

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 2000)

Unlike a deer who cannot prevent his own death, in the Deer Hunter the friends can but they choose not to. This is a powerful statement about the effect of war on men-- some get stronger, some get weaker and some never recover. The ensemble works well here- Deniro as the strong one, Savage as the wounded one and Walken as the one who is destroyed. The Russian Roulette scenes are the most powerful ones in the movie. A tour-de-force of film making showing the Vietnam era in a small industrial town.