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The Deer Hunter Reviews
... Perhaps a little cumbersome, but it’s hard not to get caught up in the film’s big, sentimental sweep.
| Nov 29, 2022
So many of the elements are so good that it all adds up to a pity. Someone, or more than one -- writer or producers or director or editor or all -- fogged up about why this picture was being made and whether it was on the rails.
| Aug 30, 2022
A film to be debated and argued over seriously because it is an earnest, serious and impressive work, despite the reservations it is necessary to have about it. In a thin and evasive year, The Deer Hunter joins a thin company that aspire to greatness.
| Aug 30, 2022
The Deer Hunter might have been a superb document of the devastation to human lives caused by the Vietnam war... But director Michael Cimino allows the story to drag on past three hours, with endless scenes of male camaraderie and war atrocity.
| Aug 30, 2022
Far from achieving Tolstoyan heights, however, Cimino fails even to attain a Scorsesian or Coppolian level. The structure of the film is so rickety, and the details so incongruous, that whatever feelings were intended finally peter out.
| Aug 30, 2022
The combat scenes are painfully graphic and, while it concludes on a hopeful note, The Deer Hunter remains an emotional thunderbolt which is apt to send you out of the Opera House Cinema in a state of profound cinematic shell shock.
| Aug 30, 2022
This movie has qualities that we almost never see any more -- range and power and breadth of experience, all fully sustained throughout three hours of film that leave us exhausted and satisfied by the end.
| Aug 30, 2022
The Deer Hunter is a film of great courage and overwhelming emotional power, a fiercely loving embrace of life in a death-ridden time. And it places the director-writer-producer, 37-year-old Michael Cimino, right at the center of our film culture.
| Aug 30, 2022
The Deer Hunter operates on several emotional, intellectual and artistic levels, yet, like the best of American films, it remains fundamentally a moving entertainment.
| Aug 30, 2022
It's a film of excesses, some of which succeed admirably and others of which fail spectacularly. But the excesses are what make this a distinctive film. Its obsessiveness is riveting.
| Aug 30, 2022
What distinguishes The Deer Hunter most is its many rich characters and the size of its vision. This is a big film, dealing with big issues, made on a grand scale.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 30, 2022
One of the most ambitious, affecting, American movies ever made. Amazing.
| Aug 30, 2022
Cimino, an obvious film buff, has tried unsuccessfully to pay homage to a variety of classic film styles and genres dealing with male bonding.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2022
The meticulous work of De Niro establishes an intelligent base for the rest of the cast, a rare ensemble of peers awesome in their presentation of the ordinary and the extraordinary.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 30, 2022
The Deer Hunter is an exalted achievement on many levels not the least of them is that there is hardly a wasted moment or shot in its entire length. It is, above all, a triumph of distillation.
| Aug 30, 2022
The Deer Hunter is a searing motion picture experience, a powerful assault on nerves, a shattering body-blow to memories, a true creator of nightmares, a sudden, savage injection of pain and awareness into the lethargy of contentedness.
| Aug 30, 2022
Although its scope is broad and its concentration on the exactitude of detail and location absorbingly accurate, the film remains at heart remarkably straightforward.
| Aug 30, 2022
Cimino mirrors the attitudes of his characters so precisely... that he has managed to achieve what a more overtly political film might not have done -- a perfect reflection of everyday America's puzzlement, fury and despair at the outcome [of Vietnam].
| Aug 30, 2022
The film is hardly interested in moral issues. It is concerned with our emotions and the ruder kinds of dramatic tension. On that level it is remarkably exciting.
| Aug 30, 2022
Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter is a daring and complicated film about that confusion. It doesn't always work, in the traditional narrative sense, but its faults do not dissipate its strength.
| Aug 30, 2022