Extremely good

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 2003)

Probably the best war-movie to me is Platoon. It is a movie who is so realistic that it even makes it looks that you were in the Vietnam-war. Compared with other war-movies or series like 'Tour of duty' for example, it is much better. 'Tour of duty' was very entertaining to see, but it was a little romanticized and unrealistic. In Platoon, you can see that America lost that war because of bad strategy and attitude. The simple-minded, poor Americans were sent to Vietnam to fight for the rich Americans. They were young and no natural born killers so that is why they lost the war. Director and writer Oliver Stone showed really good how this happened, it even made me a little emotional. Especially the very memorable (to me anyway) invasion of the American soldiers in the Vietnamese village and the big battle at the end were very impressing to me. Oliver Stone, congratulations.