Storyline
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Directors
Cast
Johnny Depp, Tony Todd, Keith David, Dale Dye, Francesco Quinn, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Charlie Sheen, Oliver Stone, John C. McGinley, Tom Berenger, Chris Pedersen, Mark Moses, Paul Sanchez, Richard Edson, Kevin Dillon, Robert 'Rock' Galotti, J. Adam Glover, Ivan Kane, David Neidorf, Nick Nicholson, Reggie Johnson, Corey Glover, Bob Orwig, Corkey Ford, Kevin Eshelman, James Terry McIlvain, Peter Hicks, Basile Achara, Steve Barredo, Chris Castillejo, Andrew B. Clark, Bernardo Manalili, Than Rogers, Li Thi Van, Clarisa Ortacio, Romy Sevilla, Matthew Westfall, Warren McLean, Li Mai Thao, Ron Barracks, H. Gordon Boos, Brad Cassini, Mark Ebenhoch
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Reviews
100
It was Francois Truffaut who said that it's not possible to make an anti-war movie, because all war movies, with their energy and sense of adventure, end up making combat look like fun. If Truffaut had lived to see Platoon, the best film of 1986, he might have wanted to modify his opinion. Here is a movie that regards combat from ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and it does not make war look like fun.
100
Possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book "Dispatches."
100
Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone, a film in which a visceral approach to violence, which has always set him apart, is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance. This is not the Vietnam of op-ed writers, rabble-rousers or esthetic visionaries, not Vietnam-as-metaphor or Vietnam-the-way-it-should-have-been. It is a movie about Vietnam as it was, alive with authenticity, seen through the eyes of a master filmmaker who lost his innocence there.
100
[Stone] succeeds with an immediacy that is frightening. War movies of the past, even the greatest ones, seem like crane shots by comparison; Platoon is at ground zero.
100
If Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter are like slaps to the face, Platoon is a punch to the gut.
