Storyline
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Directors
Cast
R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kevyn Major Howard, Dorian Harewood, Bruce Boa, Adam Baldwin, Sal Lopez, Matthew Modine, Ian Tyler, Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, Marcus D'Amico, Chris Maybach, John Terry, John Ward, Jon Stafford, Ed O'Ross, Kieron Jecchinis, Tim Colceri, Peter Edmund, Kirk Taylor, Gary Landon Mills, Papillon Soo, Ngoc Le, Tan Hung Francione, Costas Dino Chimona, Keith Hodiak, Peter Merrill, Herbert Norville, Philip Bailey, John Curtis, Bob Eric Hart, Steve Hudson, Gary Smith, Michael Anthony Williams, John Wilson, David Palffy, Leanne Hong, Gil Kopel, Nguyen Hue Phong, Duc Hu Ta, Martin Adams, Kevin Albridge, Del Anderson, Louis Barlotti, John Beddows, Patrick Benn, Steve Boucher, Adrian Bush, Tony Carey, Gary Cheeseman, Wayne Clark, Chris Cornibert, Danny Cornibert, John Davis, Harry Davies, Gordon Duncan, Phil Elmer, Colin Elvis, Hadrian Follett, Sean Frank
Trailer
Reviews
100
Chicago Reader
Elliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes...and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since "Dr. Strangelove," as well as the most horrific; the first section alone accomplishes most of what "The Shining" failed to do.
100
Newsweek
As brutally unsparing as "Platoon" was, it was ultimately warm and embracing. Kubrick's film is about as embracing as a full-metal-jacketed bullet in the gut. [29 June 1987]
100
Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination.
100
Christian Science Monitor
What makes the film stunning is less its metaphorical scheme than its cinematic style. Always a matter of flowing camera movement, Kubrick has photographed much of the action with long "traveling shots" that capture time and space as a seamless whole, not fractured into the bits and pieces of standard editing techniques. [26 June 1987]
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
May be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour.
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