Chris Taylor is a young naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam.

Platoon movie review. Platoon Review A new recruit arrives in Vietnam to find himself not only caught in a brutal and confusing war but also between two experienced but very different sergeants. We review the Vietnam War classic Platoon for its 30th Anniversary. Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone a film in which a visceral approach to violence which has always set him apart is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance.

As Platoon a coming-of-age film demonstrates he went through his rite of passage but as Platoon also demonstrates he became a very bad writera hype artist. Platoon was instantly acclaimed upon its release as the first truly authentic look at Vietnam since the end of the war. If Truffaut had lived to see Platoon the best film of 1986 he might have wanted to modify his opinion.

Critics consensus Informed by director Oliver Stones personal experiences in Vietnam Platoon forgoes easy sermonizing in favor of a harrowing ground-level view of war bolstered by. Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone a film in which a visceral approach to violence which has always set him apart is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance. By Kim Newman.

It is one of the best Vietnam war films I have ever seen that won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986 and best Director for Oliver Stone as well as Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. Upon arrival he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war cinemas.

Actually he had already proved this in his crude scripts for Midnight Express and Scarface. 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. 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.

This is not the Vietnam of op-ed writers rabble-rousers or esthetic visionaries not Vietnam-as-metaphor or Vietnam-the-way-it-should-have-been. This Oliver Stone classic starring Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen has been. The bulk of this review was written for the 2-Disc Ultimate Edition of Platoon way back before Charlie Sheen called an air-strike down upon himself and left the rails so completely and utterly that he now makes Mel Gibson look like a parish vicar.