A historical drama

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2011)

This movie takes us to 70s of Cambodia, let us know how vulnerable Cambodian government and US against Khmer Rouge, makes us witnesses of violence implemented by Khmer Rouge, we also can see two brave men, one of whom is Cambodian Dith Pran, how they are disciplined and workaholic even under these circumstances.
Although Haing Ngor hadn't had acting experience before, he performed intermediate level of acting. All of the other actors performed well and did their business.
Although we couldn't see a lot of battle scenes, there are a lot of scenes about the results of war actions; wounded people, dead people, captivated personal, and tortures. I would prefer to see more battle actions and would like to see them more effective in a war movie, but this movie is much a drama, drama of Cambodian people, and drama of a journalist.