What I love about this film is it uses about a third of its run-time (around an hour) to establish the friendship and camaraderie between Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Steven (John Savage) in small town Clairton, PA before shipping off to Vietnam. The rest of the film deals briefly with their war time efforts and being taken as POW's and then shifts to the falling out and their readjusting (or lack thereof) to society. A troubling, psychological tale about the toll war takes on a person. And while De Niro is mentally capable of dealing with his past, his friends don't have the same luck. 9/10
