Platoon is Hell as in War ***

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2014)

We see in this film the horrors of war. We see a platoon where did factions ultimately leads to murder among the men of the outfit.
Oliver Stone vividly shows the social problems created by war- human prejudice, the fact that in Vietnam most of the inductees were poor with little hope for a successful life, religious and racial prejudice, and an attempt to show the famous My Lai Massacre, although not in the numbers of that horrible event.
There is much needed graphic violence here to further dramatize the idea that war is basically hell.
Tom Berenger is terrific here as the ruthless sergeant, as well as Charlie Sheen, the young soldier faced with a moral dilemma.