Platoon is a great movie - Anthonyaustin18

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2006)

In PLATOON, it shows you the experiences as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw recruit, or new meat in the movie a term for new recruits. At first he wilts under the rigorous conditions of jungle life, freezes up in a firefight, and wonders whether he'll be able to survive. But he gradually adapts and, as time goes by, begins to see that the platoon is divided into two groups. One consists of lifers, juicers, and sub intelligent whites, the other of blacks and heads. Sgt. Barnes, a combat-loving burnout is the informal leader of the lifers, and Sgt. Elias, a free spirit, leads the latter group. When the platoon takes some gruesome losses while on an o.p., an enraged Barnes kills some Vietnamese who may or may not have been VC and orders the burning of their village, outraging the temporarily absent Elias. As the conflict between these two reaches its tragic denouncement, Chris must decide what he really values.