Directed by:
Barry LevinsonScreenplay:
Mitch MarkowitzCinematography:
Milan Peter SovaComposer:
Alex NorthCast:
Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, J. T. Walsh, Noble Willingham, Richard Edson (more)VOD (1)
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It's 1965 and the conflict in Vietnam is about to be turned up a major notch. Keeping spirits high in the fields is Armed Forces Radio airman Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), whose manic morning show's bawdy nature has the troops in hysterics...and a mean-spirited Sgt. Major up in arms. While the radio controversy comes to a head and the war continues to escalate, Cronauer finds himself involved in a personal dilemma that could cost him everything. (Home Box Office)
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Three and a half stars. What are we left to say? Robin Williams' performance can be both the main asset and the main pitfall of this film. Some may adore the plain-spoken soldier Cronauer and devour his every joke, while others may be annoyed that some of his jokes are simply and easily misunderstood. I was somewhere in the middle, but I can't deny Williams' superb acting. As for the rest of the film, it was a shame it had such a bland storyline with the Vietnamese boy that could have been more emotional, and I also didn't really want to believe that a bunch of Vietnamese people who are learning English at school and obviously having trouble with it would understand the machine gun speech of "Teacher Cronauer" so well. ()
Here, it is beautifully shown how great of an actor and comedian Robin Williams was. It's funny, it's disarming, and we get it all in a fairly dramatic film. It's a film about war, but mostly it's a film about people and how they behave. It's as if Robin Williams and a few people around him were actually normal in a time and place that didn't really favor them. Still, they tried to make a change. And it worked. ()
Gooood Mooorning, Czechia! Here we have a movie with a slightly different perspective on Vietnam than usual. If you were expecting a cool action massage where Williams crushes the molecules of an endless line of rabid Asians, you will wait in vain for the whole two hours. This movie is about radio with an attitude, satire and jokes. In other words, about things that listeners of the miserable radio channels in the Czech Basin can only dream of. So, Good Night, not just to Bohemia, but to Moravia and Silesia too. ()
A slightly different perspective on the horrors of the Vietnam War. A view through the eyes of a man filled with humour, enthusiasm and love for others, something he applies first and foremost in all conditions. The view is all the more impressive and authentic because even in the soul of such a person, war eventually makes its one-way path. Masterfully acted, expertly shot and written so that even Vietnamese people can watch it with a bit of benevolence, with an emphasis on friendship that should not be hindered by language barriers or cultural and racial differences. But I can't give it a full score, because without Robin Williams a good half of the humorous situations would go to waste... 85% ()
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