Great movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2020)

Greetings from Lithuania.
In my opinion, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) was a definitive best movie of that year who should have won it, and not "Driving Miss Daisy", which was a pretty good movie, but did not age very well. "Born on the Fourth of July" on the other hand is a great movie, that left me dazzled and confused when i first time saw it when i was 16 years old, and yesterday for a second time, when i'm 34. This is in my opinion is one of 2 best O. Stone's movies he even made, along with "Platoon". That one depicted Vietnam war for perspective of soldiers in war. This is one shows what happened to those who returned injured. The third movie in this unofficial trilogy showed the other side of participants of this war.
Acting by Tom Cruse was amazing - he should have won that year as well - this is still by far his one of the very best performances, and i like this actor in almost anything he is still doing. Directing was superb, no wonder it won Oscar. Script and story were sometimes difficult to watch because of the grim reality it showed.
Overall, "Born on the Fourth of July" is a great movie. If you still have not seen it by any chance, do yourself a favor and watch it. Its not an easy movie to endure, but a very rewarding one.