Perhaps one of the best Vietnam period stories

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2005)

Oliver Stone has pulled some bad films off in his life, but he has been exceptionally good at the Vietnam genre. With his success of Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July does emotionally what Platoon did with real war time drama. Personally, I think this is Tom Cruise's best performance. This movie is superbly acted and dramatized. Ron Kovic's story is a truly moving one at that, and Tom and Oliver bring it to life in the most eccentric way. While the action isn't as frequent as that of Platoon, it is still good and does exactly what Oliver wants it to do through Tom. A little more graphic than Platoon in many ways, it easily should have won Best Picture of 1989.