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Last Days in Vietnam Reviews
Kennedy's take on this dark and convoluted quagmire finds its balance somewhere between oblique reportage and post-hoc apologia.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2018
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
It's a brilliant, harrowing, emotionally potent documentary by a director with unimpeachable liberal credentials - a Kennedy, no less.
| May 4, 2017
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2015
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
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
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
If voters are already tired of the red-state/blue-state reductionism in the dialogue surrounding American Sniper and Selma, Last Day's conventionality may turn out to be an asset.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 3, 2015
There's nothing innovative in the filmmaking, it's simply a gracefully told story - tense here; poignant there - with strong detailing.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2015
[A] disarming documentary about the fall of Saigon, a movie that is as much about human decency as diplomatic incompetence.
| Jan 6, 2015
In the film, the morass of strategic confusion, political convenience, and stubborn personalities pushing an agenda is the prelude to a story of startling moral clarity.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 8, 2014
"Last Days of Vietnam" comes along to remind us that it's never simple, and that pointing the finger becomes a futile exercise that can only accomplish paralysis.
| Original Score: A | Nov 19, 2014
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.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2014
Splendid period footage and relatively little politics.
Full Review | Oct 17, 2014
Nonfiction filmmaking at its finest, using incredible archival footage and fresh interviews to bring new light on an important, overlooked part of recent history.
| Original Score: A- | Oct 10, 2014
"Last Days in Vietnam" isn't just about the horrific mistakes that were made by the U.S. government. It ultimately unveils the untold acts of heroism performed by a select few to save many. It's a true testament to the human spirit.
| Oct 3, 2014
The film showcases the will and the commitment of brave individuals to do the right thing, defying executive orders even in the face of potentially treasonous consequences.
| Oct 3, 2014
A testament to people, as one source puts it, "doing their best under terrible circumstances."
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2014
This is both a gripping suspense story and a profound moral drama.
| Oct 2, 2014