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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Starring: Forest Whitaker, Patrick Swayze
  • Summary: Focusing on a young brother and sister, this is a story of the first wave of Vietnamese refugees who were housed in camps across the southwestern deserts of the United States in 1975.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Reviewed by: Ron Wells
    80
    This is a story about purgatory, though it goes by the name Camp Pendleton.
  2. Reviewed by: David Rooney
    60
    An ultimately moving drama about a displaced people. But its emotional kick is muffled by long-windedness, sentimental overkill and an overpopulated character gallery.
  3. Takes a humane look at an episode in recent history that's received little attention.
  4. 30
    Loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Negative: 1 out of 3

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