Forget Private Ryan, this is how it's done

Rating: Null/10 (6 January 2001)

I was dismayed to see that Saving Private Ryan is way up on the IMDB top 250 films list. Platoon is in a different league and belongs way above that piece of schmaltz. There are 3 awesome Vietnam films in my opinion - Platoon, The Killing Fields and The Deer Hunter. All show different aspects of that terrible conflict.
Platoon puts across what it must have been like to be an American GI, living one day at a time, not knowing what on earth you are fighting for. Berenger, Sheen and Dafoe make very effective leading players and Oliver Stone directs with an expert hand.
Brilliant.