A good movie

Since I’m still a huge fan of Robert de Niro, I really wanted to check this flick, even though I had some rather low expectations. Indeed, de Niro has been my favorite actor for ages and there was a time when I was actively hunting down his movies (by now, I have seen 67 of his movies, more than any other actor). Unfortunately, those last years, this chase has been rather thankless since de Niro has been making recently up to 4 movies a year and each movie was more forgettable than the other (with the notable exception of ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ which was really awesome and featured an awesome performance by Robert de Niro). Anyway, this movie was probably one of the most obscure flicks I have seen starring this great thespian but it was actually not bad at all, at least it was much better than all the garbage he makes nowadays. Indeed, it is basically a rather simple but decent Vietnam war drama and even though the whole thing was fairly predictable, the very good acting (also by Ed Harris, one of the most underrated actors at work nowadays) made up for a nice watch. To conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, it was still an efficient drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10