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1978 |
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DRAMA
WAR
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C |
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Three friends from a Pennysylvanian steel town go to Vietnam.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Big, bold, butch movie by Michael Cimino set against the background of the Vietnam War. The macho overtones become wearisome; the view of the Viet Cong is insultingly racist; and the film says surprisingly little about the conflict - it also annoyed the Left by not being conventionally anti-war. Although it is wonderfully photographed by the Oscar-nominated Vilmos Zsigmond, its greatest strength lies in the leading performances of Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale and John Savage.
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, Christopher Walken 
, John Cazale 