It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war.

Platoon movie rating. Platoon 1986 is a harrowing visceral ultra-realistic gutsy visually-shattering Vietnam-war film based on the writerdirectors own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier. CanadaPA Manitoba CanadaR Nova ScotiaOntario. Platoon is widely acclaimed as one of the best war films in cinema history but how true to life is Oliver Stones incendiary movie.

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Use the HTML below. A Vietnam war film made with a decades hindsight from the conflict it broke away from the glorified depictions of US imperialism that propaganda films like The. Half a decade on.

Writerdirector Oliver Stone based his movie on his own experiences and attempted to make a more realistic Vietnam movie simpler and more grounded than things like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and more ambitious than the Rambo movies -- and he. Here is a movie that regards combat from ground level from the infantrymans point of view and it. 3 brand new from AU 1495.

On this episode we take a look at the fan requested movie Platoon. My Rating 3. AustraliaR original rating AustraliaMA15 2007 re-rating AustraliaM 1987 re-rating Brazil14.

It was Francois Truffaut who said that its not possible to make an anti-war movie because all war movies with their energy and sense of adventure end up making combat look like fun. Its the Vietnam. It is an unqualified triumph for its honesty its artistry its brutality and its frank portrayal of a nation - our nation - divided by ideology poverty racism and drugs.