One of the most realistic war movies ever

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2004)

Oliver Stone knows what he's speaking. A Vietnam veteran makes movie that not only looks like war but sucks it's audience in to war in a way only few titles can.
Casting is good, music is good and scenes are the most beautiful. Those three things make good screen play to a unbelievable movie.
Beautiful scenery makes harsh contrast between ultra violent war and ages old jungle. Georges Delerue's impressive music makes the right atmosphere. It's just right, but not too sentimental Actors as a whole make great work. Especially Willem Defoe is something unreal as sgt. Elias
The Platoon is THE movie everybody to see and especially I hope George W. Bush would've watched it before war in Iraq.