If you like preachy and ham-fisted war pics...

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2003)

...Platoon is right up your alley. The first 2/3 of this film are rock-solid, but not spectacular. The last 1/3 is cartoonish, silly, weepy, and downright goofy. Someone really needs to rein in Oliver Stone; his films all have some merit, but his frantic attempts to beat his messages into an apparently undemanding audience invariably drive his films into a ditch.