Hugely engrossing and painful to watch.

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2002)

Platoon is filled with great performances in almost every role and is often overlooked as one of the great "'nam" movies. Charlie Sheen's innocent young private is captivating, Tom Berenger's Barnes is almost scary to behold and Willem Defoe is strong but sentimental and caring even in the heat of battle. Mark Moses is also superb as the overwelmed westpoint Lieutenent. The soundtrack complements the film perfectly from the emotional climax of Adagio to the very profound "tracks of my tears" sequence. All in all Oliver Stone's magnificent direction could only of been pulled off by a person with first hand experience and his screenplay should force recognision for his writing prowess. Filed with unforgetable moments, Platoon is definately unmissable.