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Platoon (1986) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Platoon (1986) a score of 3.0349 out of 4

based on (84) reviews

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Excellent

(19)

Very Good

(58)

Good

(6)

Fair

(0)

Poor

(1)

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DVDActive (Casimir Harlow)

Platoon is an adrenaline-packed, harrowing tale of some of the most shocking and explosive battles fought within Stone�s experience of Vietnam. With resoundingly good performances from an excellent cast and some of the most memorable sequences in movie h...read the complete Platoon (1986) review at DVDActive (Casimir Harlow)

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DVDLard - Region 2 DVD Review

The film opens with the arrival of a plane full of new young troops including Private Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) into Vietnam. As the troops get off the plane the first sight their confronted with is body bags being loaded back on to it and the harsh...read the complete Platoon (1986) review at DVDLard - Region 2 DVD Review

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Chicago Reader (Pat Graham)

Oliver Stone's fictionalized memoir of the Vietnam war (1986) attempts to re-create, as viscerally as possible, the harrowing realities of combat--blood and guts and traumatized emotions splayed out like freshly exploded corpses in a minefield. He makes...read the complete Platoon (1986) review at Chicago Reader (Pat Graham)