Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

filigerr I honestly do not understand why this movie is getting the kind of reviews it is getting.The acting was brilliant in all fields, I found the little boy who play Minh's character amazing, especially for that age.Very touched by the stories of every individual just because they where in a camp away from all the war doesn't mean the war is not there(including Swayze's and Whitaker's charterers of course). I found that the story to bring out a different part of the Vietnam war that is constantly looked over, well every war for that matter.Strictly a movie that is about people life story. I keep seeing reviews how they felt it was an "Anti-American" film because of a few scenes... Honestly the movie about the emotions of the people who is not in their home country that is being torn up from their own people, and their only way out is to live in a camp that is completely foreign. Try to comprehend that.This is a very good movie and it is worth a watch.

tvashtar2919 This story is about tragedy and the uprooting of whole societies. This specific story is a telling of Vietnam, but it could be transferred to many other moments in history. When a people have their whole lives destroyed by war, then how do you start over? We see the various forms that emotions can go through, and how each individual deals with them. Even when everything is gone, you end up with choices. How you handle the worst of times, can determine how you live out the rest of your life. There is not a right answer in most cases, but you have to find a way to continue.Patrick and Forest are only extras in this movie. They help create the set up for the refugees, who must find a way to begin again. Some want to go back, which is almost impossible as life can never be the same after war. The continual theme throughout this movie is a longing for peace. Emotions are stretched to the end as people search for loved ones, and search for meaning. There is always hope when looking to the future, but the devastation of loss will never be forgotten.It is a very good telling of how wars affect the survivors. The headlines are written down in the history books, but life is continued on a personal level. It is hard to imagine what it would be like to actually survive, and yet it has happened so many times in the conflicts between cultures.

yojimbo999 A truly great film that can only be fully appreciated by people who lived through such times. Self-hating Americans will despise the film for its (mostly) pro-American sentiments. The movie offers a brief critique of American foreign policy during the Vietnam War, but that's not what it's ultimately about. It's about loss and family and faith, and that's all there is to it. The most haunting image to me is the woman who refuses to leave the camp even after she's found a sponsor, fearing what is waiting for her outside. The soldiers have to drag her out by force because she's so terrified. IT's sequences like that that comes from personal experience and can't be fabricated. The filmmakers probably lived through this themselves (I don't know, I don't know them or know their background) to be able to write/direct such a moving film. Sure, it's sentimental, but so what? People who dislike this movie because it's somehow TOO sentimental needs to call the cops because they lost their heart and soul somewhere along the way.

vyperman7 Green Dragon was absolutely amazing. I found it to be very realistic in portraying what it would be like back when the Vietnamese people had to live in the refugee camps.This film is very touching as well. I loved the relationship between Minh and Addie who is played by Forrest Whitaker. The character Minh is a little boy who is forced to come to America with his uncle and his sister. He is constantly searching the camp for his mother and father. While this is going on, he develops a friendship with Addie. Addie is a cook and a talented artist. Minh and Addie bond because they both like to draw and love comics.I also liked the other parts of the story as well. Tai's character was great. He plays the camp manager and keeper of the peace. He has to deal with Minh's mother and father not being there and how he had to leave without them. There are other cool little stories mixed in, but you should watch it for yourself and find out. This really is a very moving film, and it should not be missed.9/10