Reals good.

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2016)

Reals good. Francois Truffaut once said "There is no such thing as an anti-war film". If only Truffaunt had lived to see Platoon, I wonder what he would have said...
Stone himself, who fought in Vietnam, said he tried to make that was not metaphor, not message, but simply a memory of what it seemed like at the time to him.
Platoon captures this, all with out every really showing a clear shot of an enemy solider. Yet there is dander all around. Combat scenes are chaotic. There are no standard heros. Americans fight Americans. The sense of dread is overwhelming at times and the true madness of war finally comes to the forefront with this film.
A must see.