De Niro's best?

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2001)

This is possibly Robert De Niro's finest acting he has ever done in a film, giving a emotionally charged performance that never lets up. Out of the two Vietnam films released that year (Coming Home was the other), this is the better of the two, where the performances is this are all-round better. Some people complain about the first hour of this film as boring, but not me. It sets all the backstories and what the characters are like perfectly. The best scenes in The Deer Hunter are the scenes after the Russian Roulette scene (which itself are highly emmotional), where Michael (De Niro) returns home. Cinema doesn't come much better than this.