A detailed and realistic Vietnam film, but slow at times

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2005)

My mother bought, "The Killing Fields," on DVD yesterday for the whole family. I never really heard about the movie and as I read about it, I thought it would be like another Apocalypse Now kind of film. My father said that it was a really good, so I decided to watch it with my brother and dad. The movie was very realistic with good performances by Sam Waterston and Dr. Haing S. Ngnor who an academy award for the picture. It was a depressing movie and very detailed and sharp but it lacks from giving me a "big bang." I thought the movie was going to be stimulating and wanted you to have more but to me it didn't and the film got really slow. I'm not saying the film was bad because it wasn't, it was a good movie and was different from other war films in which I liked. Overall, good film, slow at times, but really detailed and the song, "Imagine All the People," by John Lennon is a great ending song for the film.
Hedeen's Outlook: 7.5/10 *** B-