The Best Vietnam War Film Ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2004)

This film is Oliver Stone's greatest film. Platoon is a film made by a man who was there, and saw the Vietnam War from the 'Grunt's' perspective.
Charlie Sheen is particularly good as Chris Taylor, the young naive teenager who will receive his baptism of fire in the jungles of Nam through the leadership of Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe, Excellent) and Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger mesmerising as the bad guy).
Platoon is a film that does what it sets out to do: Portray the Vietnam War for what it is: The loss of 58,000 American lives at the expense of Government propaganda on Communism.
If the ending of this film does not get to you, you've probably got a heart of stone. The film is up there with The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now as one of the best films about the Vietnam War ever made.