Don't know what to say!

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2009)

It's movies like this that makes you come to write and delete and then rewrite and delete like thousand times because you fear to write something not equally as powerful as these movies deserve one to write for.
Stone obviously has something about Vietnam that can be seen in most of his movies. I have seen almost all Nam movies (Born on the 4th of July "Oliver Stone", The Deer Hunter "Michael Cimino", Casualties of War "Brian De Palma and Stone happened to be screenwriter", Apocalypse Now "Francis Ford Coppola", etc..) and therefore, I can guilt-free-mindedly say that Platoon is by far the best of all. All the actors in the movie were excellent- Charlie Cheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger,Johnny Depp, John C. McGinley (scrub), Kevin Dillon and others can't remember now but all performed remarkably.
Stone, though has a clear empathy for the soldiers of Nam, exhibits in a very provocative way the brutal acts of the soldiers to the locals. There is this one scene of the young Korean (or gook as the soldiers referred to them)with one leg and deformed eye who was hiding with his mom under the ground and Kevin Dillon humiliates him and kills him. This scene is a clear sign that Stone sympathized with the locals and despised such indecent actions. Another master scene in the movie is when Taylor (Charlie) is finally in the helicopter leaving the battle and looks from above to the hole which is filled with corpses of soldiers (very brilliant of Stone).
Chapeau bas Stone!