 Bill White of the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" was even more critical, suggesting that "this "Journey" doesn't know where it's going", criticizing the "careless cinematography" and "clumsy stag[ing]".An early cut of the film was screened in April 2005 in sold-out one-day-only showings in Little Saigon, Washington, D.C., and San Jose to commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.The film was highly praised by the Vietnamese diaspora as an accurate presentation of the experiences that many Vietnamese people had to go through.