The music kills it (SPOILERS!)

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2002)

...The only thing that wrecks "The Killing Fields" is the awful late disco/New Wave sythesizer soundtrack...it is completely out of place...using John Lennon's "Imagine" at the end sounds like a perfect match the first time you hear it in that context, then the lyrics become mocking...if they wanted ex-Beatle music, they should have used George Harrison's "Isn't It A Pity" instead...
...What gets me about Dith Pran's discovery of the "killing fields" is that it is a horror movie moment...the guys is walking along a dirt embankment in a blasted landscape when he trips into a shell crater filled with skeletons...woulden't the smell of rotting flesh have alerted him? And why aren't there flies? And why didn't Dith expect something like this?...after all he saw four people casually murdered (three shot, one asphyxiated)...they weren't going to dig graves, even mass ones...