Film Reviews by RT

Clearly, Oliver Stone comes at this with his own personal baggage in the form of the Vietnam War, and you can see how this affects the work.  It's a big, important story, but you can feel things dragging slightly.  The individual performances are all very strong, excellent even, but ultimately it feels less than the sum of its parts.  I found the cinematography slightly uneven also, with inconsistent use of black and white (not restricted to historical passages) and occasional over-rotation on the Dutch angle.  Good, but not great.