The Enemy was in Us

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2019)

There were a lot of Vietnam War movies in the 80's. For me it's hard to say which was the best. I'm not a war movie fan and this movie is a perfect example why.
If we were the "good guys," then what were the bad guys like??
Platoon showed us some ugly stuff. Revoltingly ugly. Ugly behavior, ugly attitudes, and ugly deaths. There was nothing glorious or even heroic. It was just war. And it was frightening. We got to follow Chris (Charlie Sheen) from his first days in the field until the bitter end of the movie. He certainly went through a transformation. When he arrived the other men had already gone through their metamorphosis so he only got to see the Vietnam version of them. If only he could have known the home version of those men.