We review the Vietnam War classic Platoon for its 30th Anniversary.

Platoon movie rating. 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. 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.

On this episode we take a look at the fan requested movie Platoon. Use the HTML below. Since the end of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s numerous motion pictures have attempted with varying degrees of success to capture one or more aspects of the most contentious American conflict of the 20th century.

No war movie is truly an anti-war movie but PLATOON comes close and its still as powerful as it was decades ago. 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. 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.

This Oliver Stone classic starring Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen has been. Released in 1986 Platoon was a massive hit with audiences and critics winning both Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards. Oliver Stones Platoon is the most sobering Vietnam War epic ever made.

A film that depicts the best and worst of humanity Platoon is also an excellent action film. 0 of 1 users found this helpful. Here is a movie that regards combat from ground level from the infantrymans point of view and it.

Want to share IMDbs rating on your own site. Platoon is so much more than just your average war film. Platoon has some nice character interactions and it is realistic and grounded in its approach but it lacks character development it lacks any plot and themes and message whatsoever it is not that well made and it is all around a very disappointing overrated and lackluster films that is also immensely inferior to some other great Vietnam war movies.