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In Country: The Vietnam War on DVDSite Admin | September 15, 2007 | 0 comments | Print | E-mail THE WORSTComing Home (1978) 0 Stars
Anti-war poster girl Jane Fonda in a Vietnam War film? That alone should earn this manipulative, depressing movie a minus-star rating. Fonda gave a better “performance” during her infamous, real-life visit to Hanoi as she sat behind the sights of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Apocalypse Now (1979)
The only reason this preposterous movie rates even one star is Robert Duval’s brief but outstanding performance as an air cav’ commander. Based upon Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – a cautionary tale of 19th-century European colonialism in the Belgian Congo – Coppola’s monstrosity is weighted down with anti-war baggage. Marlon Brando, a previously great actor already in decline, provides unintended comic relief. [continued on next page] Help Armchair General by bookmarking to
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