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Platoon

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Platoon

1986

Oliver Stone

Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Dillon ...

7.7

69,520

War In PLATOON, Oliver Stone draws on his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the brutality of guerrilla warfare: the heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw recruit, or "new meat," who serves as the film's narrator. At first he wilts under the rigorous conditions of jungle life, freezes up in a fire ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"There is plenty of good work to be found here, and pic certainly grabs the viewer by the collar in a way not found everyday in contemporary films."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Effective (...) Stone sets up his shots to deny us the feeling that combat makes sense (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It] honors its uneasy, complex, still haunted subject (...) Possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book 'Dispatches'."	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"This film is an act of courage (...) This bold combat movie projects Vietnam with such ferocity that no one can ever doubt that that war was indeed anything but a living hell."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Oliver Stone's war classic is overlooked sometimes because of it's brutal but long-winded portrayal of the duality of man. This however remains gripping stuff (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Stella Papamichael BBC	"[Stone showcases] his ability to balance the sheer brutality of war with a moving elegy to the loss of innocence."	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"'Platoon' is a triumph for Oliver Stone, a film in which a visceral approach to violence (...) is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance."	POS
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"Stone's eye-blistering images possess an awesome power, which sets the senses reeling and leaves the mind disturbed."	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"[Stone] clearly wants us to understand what fighting in that war was like. He succeeds with an immediacy that is frightening."	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"This is a modern classic and a personal exorcism for its director (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Chris Cabin Slant	"One hell of a war movie (...) It encompasses an admirably wide range of emotions, reactions, and identities (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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