The Killing Fields

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DVD Release Date:

03/27/2001

Run Time:

142min.

Starring:

Sam Waterston , Dr. Haing S. Ngor , John Malkovich , Julian Sands , Craig T. Nelson

Director(s):

Roland Joffé

Genre(s):

Drama

Plot: The Killing Fields is a romanticized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine story by New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg. Covering the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1975, Schanberg (Sam Waterston) relies on his Cambodian friend and translator ... Read More

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In my opinion, I did not like this movie at all. I thought it was poorly written. It had a minimal plot line and terrible dialogue. The length of the movie stretched to an ungodly two and a half hour... s. Even films with the most fantastic of scripts should not be that long. Furthermore, after waiting for that long, the ending to the movie was terrible. The two journalists were reunited with each other after a few years of hardship. Itâs understandable that one would choose to end the movie this way, but the plot was carried on for so long, it seemed trivial and unsatisfying to say the least. The casting however, I thoroughly enjoyed. I thought that they displayed emotions well and they were recognizable to me as famous actors even today. On the other hand, I also thought the cinematography was horrendous. I understand it was shot in the 80âs and without the high definition we have today, but I feel as though the director Roland JoffÃ© was trying too hard to follow Francis Ford Coppolaâs Apocalypse Now, but due to lack of innovation, threw in a copious amount of explosions and call Full Review

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