Look the movie is just really overrated, itโs considered a classic and is considered a 5 star by a lot of people.(spoilers but id suggest reading this before watching if you havenโt already)
My opinion is that itโs not because of how long it is, long movies are fine for me itโs just an hour for a Russian wedding and when the friends are talking to each other for the first hour of the film like I couldnโt understand half what they were on about I understood what was happening and everything but the acting is fine itโs just the script. But one of my biggest problems to the film is that one minute there at a bar talking about them going to nam and next minute theyโve just all teleported into a village with there own helis bombing the village and deniro waking up over five dead people itโs just so random and then him saying hi to his mates then them again teleporting into a prison cell but obviously the only ones alive over the ten or 20 soldiers are the three friends and like 2 other American soldiers I mean I know itโs a film but far out they couldโve cut like 30 or more minutes out of the wedding to show the battles in the village and the Russian roulette but for me is weird aswell like the three friends obviously donโt get a bullet and how did they escape with two ak-47s pointing at them again I know itโs a movie but itโs so silly, and then when they escape the heli only manages to get one of them even though deniro and Steve are literally on the heli making no effort to get on there and boom after that Vietnams over and there all weird and crazy and also them hunting a deer for like 2 mins is crazy aswell they go for a hunting expedition and deniro just runs at a deer not being stealth at all and gets it itโs all up a powerful film and the idea is good itโs just that the direction is terrible with the teleporting like were there in the Russian roulette place and deniro just time skips there aswell stacked cast though good acting good plot but just terrible directing and one hour at a wedding and it felt like there was no cuts either just a whole wedding and a bar scene and just no action for the two battles just no action but an hour for a wedding thatโs bs but the acting is great.