My Favorite War Film

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2001)

Platoon is my favorite war movie and my 6th favorite movie. Oliver Stone has created the perfect surrounding for frightened and inexperienced soldiers.
Charlie Sheen has not been in a better movie since. I don't know what it was like in Vietnam, and I'm sure that the terror of all those hundreds of thousands of soldiers would not be able to compare to any movie, but I think Platoon came as close as any movie could get.
Willem Defoe dose a great job as Sergeant Elias, but Tom Berenger stole the show as the cold Sergeant Barnes.
The destruction of the small village was almost too hard to watch, and the final battle was intense as well as magnificent. Platoon deserves all the credit it has gotten over the years, and it will become a movie classic. 10/10