[It dwarfs] almost any other film that deals with the ugly reality of war.
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01/01/00
The Deer Hunter (1978)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:40
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: Its greatness is blunted by its length and one-sided point of view, but the film's weaknesses are overpowered by Michael Cimino's sympathetic direction and a series of heartbreaking performances from Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken.
Runtime: 3 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An epic three-hour tale of lives forever changed by the Vietnam War, THE DEER HUNTER follows the transformation of a tight group of friends from a working-class town, taking its place alongside... [More]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, John Savage
Director: Michael Cimino
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Reviews for The Deer Hunter
a hollow movie that only play-acted at meaning; the sucker was us.
04/04/04
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.
06/13/07
A cinematic triumph and a powerful celebration of the dignity of ordinary individuals in peace and war.
05/03/01
Its feelings for time, place and blue-collar people are genuine, and its vision is that of an original, major new film maker.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe Deer Hunter (1978) is storywriter/producer/director Michael Cimino's epic, only his second film - a powerful, disturbing
01/01/00
It is a heartbreakingly effective fictional machine that evokes the agony of the Vietnam time.
10/23/04
Top CriticThe actors in the principal roles are so convincing and the movement of this story, told on such a grand scale, is so compelling that its greatness is undeniable.
01/01/00
A lyrical, slow-to-unfold story of the devastating effects of a tour in Vietnam on three close friends.
01/01/00
A simultaneuosly touching and harrowing experience that puts the audience directly in the shoes of one man's experience of Vietnam.
08/04/04
One of the greatest war films of all time.
09/10/02
A visceral film that says volumes about the horrors of war and its impact on the lives of typically well adjusted people.
12/13/06
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.
04/29/09
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.
12/13/06
Top CriticThe 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.
02/20/08
Top CriticIt is clearly shown that even these close friends couldn't save each other from the tragic events of the war.
01/01/00
Like an honorable soldier, Cazale gave everything he had for a cause in which he believed.
07/08/07
An emotionally devastating meditation on war, masculinity, and the human psyche.
10/01/03
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.
02/20/09
Top CriticBrutally memorable.
07/30/03
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