WAR IS HELL

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2001)

Platoon is a masterpiece.Stone captures the Nam from the grunts point of view.NO Rambo here.The jungle is full of death and fear.Sheen gives his best performance of his life.Dafoe and Ber add alot of grit to.For example,As Sheen struggles in a march,Barnes shows no understanding to him.GET A MOVE ON BOY HE SHOUTS.Dafoe takes a caring love to him.Further,there are a few negatives which I see more clearly now than 10 years ago in the film.Most of the platoon are not nice men.They kill innocent people with no remorse.Bunny is a section 8 in any other war.I have heard commanders of the time say drug use and hazing of civilians was not tolerated in the early years.Platoon takes place early in the war.I feel Stone added these lies to make a better movie.I knew these things did go on in the Nam.I question if Stone really saw these things?????????????????I give the film 8 out of 10/