The Greatest war movie

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2000)

This was the movie that catapulted Oliver Stone to success.Parts of it are based on oliver stones own experience as a soldier in the vietnam war.Charlie sheen plays the young infantry who volenteered to fight in the vietnamese war who is sent to a platoon split by two senior sergeants.One of them is sergeant barnes(Played excellent by Tom Berenger),a torn man who has seen enough war and the war has effected him badly.therefore he often steps over the human decency.The other one is sergeant Elias, also a torn man but an idealistic one.He doesnt believe in what he is doing and even though he has lost passion for it he still represents the good and fights with barnes creating an inner war in the platoon.Half of the men with elias half of the men with barnes. This is my favorite war movie because it shows how it really was because its partially based on oliver Stones own experience in the vietnamese war.It shows the unglamourous war being fought by these young men and all of the wars uglinesses,The effect of war on the human body, The war which nobody really believed in.