While the third film in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy is easily the weakest, it nevertheless deserved a better fate than it received.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2024

Stone rams the heroine’s agony down your throat instead of letting you feel it for yourself.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 31, 2022

From the moment the war intrudes on the landscape with the coming of the French troops in the 1950s, the mood is somber and almost ceremonial and perhaps for that reason the many emotional scenes fail to move us.

| Aug 15, 2018

...despite every intention the movie can't quite shake its American male point of view.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2016

Some of the parts are undeniably gripping; what gets lost are the characters themselves.

| Mar 13, 2015

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2004

What Oliver Stone has created is his Mrs. Miniver for the Vietnam era.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2004

Overblown, forgettable Oliver Stone epic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2004

Mr. Stone tells this tale vigorously, but he has the wrong cinematic vocabulary for his heroine's essentially passive experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2002

Touches the heart not only as a cross-cultural treasure but as Oliver Stone's most soulful movie.

| Mar 16, 2002

Heaven has so many themes, ranging from Buddhist spirituality to feminism, it ends up with none.

| Nov 16, 2001

This is the first time [Stone] has tried to place himself inside a woman's imagination, and that he succeeds so well is due partly...to an extraordinary performance by Hiep Thi Le in the leading role.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2001

Heaven and Earth has the epic scope one would expect from a film of this magnitude, but it lacks much of the narrative strength of Stone's first two Vietnamese tales.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2001

Stone has a keen directorial eye, and Heaven and Earth is usually interesting to watch.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000