All around, a pretty good movie

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 2001)

This was a pretty good movie, not Oliver Stones best, but still pretty good. Tom Cruise did an extraordinary job as Ron Kovic, as did Willem Defoe as Charlie, and Stone's directing tricks were masterful, but the film lacked the edge of Stone's other movies like Platoon and Talk Radio.>
My only real problem with this was the middle stretch, because to me it kind of dragged on for a while, but the Vietnam scenes were powerful and haunting, but when Ron came back home the film just sort of stood still for half an hour, but other than that, it was a good movie. 7/10