As far as overrated war movies go, it's not bad.

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2002)

This is one of the movies they mention alongside Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket as the great Vietnam movies. Unlike Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, Platoon is not great. It's okay, maybe a little too homoerotic for my tastes. The metaphors are heavy-handed, and the movie doesn't really jump into the darkness the way I might have hoped. The end result is just another forgettable war movie, not as bad as Saving Private Ryan, but not as good as The Steel Helmet.