One of the most intense films ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 1999)

Once we're in Vietnam and you hear that soundtrack music, you know something is coming. Nothing, however, can prepare you for the next two hours. Perhaps Apocalypse Now has a darker atmosphere, but Platoon is pretty grim. A clean-cut boy loses his innocence like shedding layers of skin as he is immersed into a situation where surviving is the only thing that matters. A number of shocking moments in this film. Oliver Stone will never make a better film than this. You can almost forgive him for Natural Born Killers.