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As gripping as it is inspiring, Last Days in Vietnam offers a surprisingly fresh -- and heart-wrenching -- perspective on the end of the Vietnam War.
All Critics (62) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (3)
Authoritative and exhaustive. A must-watch. Apr 30, 2015 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
Authoritative and exhaustive. A must-watch.
Verne Gay
The film is rich in archival-memory and first-person recollections of many key figures, of higher and lower or no rank at all. Apr 28, 2015 | Full Review…
The film is rich in archival-memory and first-person recollections of many key figures, of higher and lower or no rank at all.
Robert Lloyd
There's nothing innovative in the filmmaking, it's simply a gracefully told story - tense here; poignant there - with strong detailing. Jan 23, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There's nothing innovative in the filmmaking, it's simply a gracefully told story - tense here; poignant there - with strong detailing.
Brad Wheeler
Archived film of the final, chaotic push to clear the embassy compound by helicopter is as dramatic as any thriller, heightened by stories of bravery and risk. Oct 30, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Archived film of the final, chaotic push to clear the embassy compound by helicopter is as dramatic as any thriller, heightened by stories of bravery and risk.
Linda Barnard
A testament to people, as one source puts it, "doing their best under terrible circumstances." Oct 2, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A testament to people, as one source puts it, "doing their best under terrible circumstances."
Kristin Tillotson
This is both a gripping suspense story and a profound moral drama. Oct 2, 2014 | Full Review…
This is both a gripping suspense story and a profound moral drama.
J. R. Jones
Kennedy's take on this dark and convoluted quagmire finds its balance somewhere between oblique reportage and post-hoc apologia. Dec 10, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Kennedy's take on this dark and convoluted quagmire finds its balance somewhere between oblique reportage and post-hoc apologia.
Di Golding
As impossibly large-scale and labyrinthian wars can become, it is still the human element that shines through, for better or worse. Nov 15, 2018 | Full Review…
As impossibly large-scale and labyrinthian wars can become, it is still the human element that shines through, for better or worse.
Stephen Saito
It's a brilliant, harrowing, emotionally potent documentary by a director with unimpeachable liberal credentials - a Kennedy, no less. May 4, 2017 | Full Review…
It's a brilliant, harrowing, emotionally potent documentary by a director with unimpeachable liberal credentials - a Kennedy, no less.
Kyle Smith
It's a fascinating saga of institutional denial and personal commitment - both of which are somehow bound up in the personal arc of Graham Martin. Dec 18, 2015 | Rating: 4/5
It's a fascinating saga of institutional denial and personal commitment - both of which are somehow bound up in the personal arc of Graham Martin.
Norman Wilner
Totally unbalanced film. The North Vietnamese army becomes the symbol of invading barbarians when as Walt Kelly put it, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Feb 13, 2015 | Full Review…
Totally unbalanced film. The North Vietnamese army becomes the symbol of invading barbarians when as Walt Kelly put it, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
Louis Proyect
Paints a true-life picture of ordinary people with human consciences defying their orders and the law to do the right thing when bureaucracy fails them. Feb 12, 2015 | Full Review…
Paints a true-life picture of ordinary people with human consciences defying their orders and the law to do the right thing when bureaucracy fails them.
MaryAnn Johanson
One of the better PBS films. I had seen the image of the last plane leaving Vietnam but here we get the full story of fate and how some survive due to circumstance with others being less fortunate.
Super Reviewer
A historical documentary with surprising emotional power and the reason is that it has no real desire to make any kind of statement (for those who were troubled by this fact, I can only say that most people are well aware the Vietnam war was a debacle, so restating it has no impact) other than to tell the facts. I had no idea so much raw footage of those few weeks existed.
Held together strongly by powerful interviews and heartbreaking imagery, "Last Days in Vietnam" tells the stories of the many people that were left at the end of the war, who made it out alive to tell their stories and who was unlucky. This film gives a very raw and true look into the lives of these people, and by the end of the film you may find yourself tearing up every now and then. My biggest complaint about this Documentary is that it feels extremely repetitive and many people use a lot of the same material to get their stories across, dragging the film to it's conclusion. At 97-minutes, I truly believe about 20-minutes could have been shaven off to make for a really great film, but it is a good film overall. "Last Days in Vietnam" is not groundbreaking, but it is impressive.
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