One of the best war movies ever made

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2014)

Perhaps Oliver Stone's most well known film Platoon is a masterpiece to it's genre, the movie tells the story of a young recruit in the Vietnam War who faces a moral crisis when confronted by the horrors of war and the duality of man. The movie stars Tom Berenger as Staff Sgt. Barnes a soldier who only cares about killing. The movie also stars Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Francesco Quinn, and Forest Whitaker. What Oliver Stone tries to teach us with this Vietnam epic is of the horrors of the Vietnam War and what a horrible event it really was in our history. The acting is complex, the music score tries to make us think of the horrors of all wars, the cinematography is terrific, and my gosh what a great movie this really was. Not only Oliver Stone's direction was really good but he was an actual veteran of that war, and this is a great movie to remember those who died during the Vietnam War.
A definite A+