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This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches of an era: it shoves the audience into hell and leaves it stranded without a map.
The film is ambitious and it succeeds on a number of levels and it proves that Cimino is an important director who deserves to be watched carefully.
A disgusting account of what the evil Vietnamese did to poor, innocent Americans stands at the center of this Oscar-laden weepie about macho buddies from a small industrial town.
It is a heartbreakingly effective fictional machine that evokes the agony of the Vietnam time.
Its feelings for time, place and blue-collar people are genuine, and its vision is that of an original, major new film maker.
Largely Ambitious, and not without flaws, Cimino's Oscar winning film is nonetheless an effective chronicle of the impact of Vietnam on a clique of close friends
The friendship between the three central characters, as well as their shared association with the men from their small hometown, is truthful and realistic in a way that most guys will find impossible to resist.
The first half and second half of the film couldn't be more different but that is the genius behind the film.
Like an honorable soldier, Cazale gave everything he had for a cause in which he believed.
Gauging the shifting moods of the 1970s, this tale of life and love disrupted by war is as arresting as a bullet to the brain.
A film I have grown increasingly ambivalent about over the years.
A visceral film that says volumes about the horrors of war and its impact on the lives of typically well adjusted people.
This is probably one of the few great films of the decade.
It certainly shows the horrors of war, but it also shows the close buddy friendship that two men can have with each other...
The movie is perhaps most remarkable in its depictions of the intensely personal emotional costs of war...
Cimino's artistically acclaimed drama, which swept the 1978 Oscars despite protests, is available in a new DVD, with deleted scenes and comments from cinematographer Zsigmond
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