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Platoon (1986) Movie Reviews
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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)
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by Robert M. Bonnett... on October 01, 2006
Are you kidding me ???Where can you get 13 GREAT movies and EXTRAS for this price?? I cant believe people that find fault with a set containing so much for so little!!!!Each of these movies is highly entertaining in its own way. A diversified group of ...
by Curtis Swackhamme... on April 05, 2005
All great movies, but I couldn't help but notice that every time I try to eject the JFK Director's Cut DVD, the disc pops out of the DVD player and then makes an unexpected move back and to the left. ...
by David R. Lingard on September 12, 2009
ha war war war!!! wahts more great acting good story platoon was and is a great movie to ...
by MikeD on July 11, 2009
I think Platoon is the greatest movie of all times. Makes you think about what's really important in life. Very philosophical. And the music is just awesome. The whole movie can be summed up in Taylor's words at the ...
by Movie Lover on May 25, 2009
I'll tell you right now that when it comes to war movies, Oliver Stone doesn't joke around. Out of all the movies i've seen of his, W., JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, this one is the best, and overall the darkest as well. The acting is successful, ...
by Stanley Koenig "s... on March 29, 2009
Anyone who gave this movie 3 stars or lower has a problem.PLATOON is one of the greates war films I have ever seen.Maybe even the best.And yes it does show how the real NAM was.Ity does eqel Saving Pvt. Ryan and all the other great war films out ...
by Geary A., Jones on March 10, 2009
I loved this movie when I first saw it in the theater ages ago, and was unaware of Oliver Stone's political leanings, and oddly enough, I still love PLATOON. Generally, war pictures don't appeal to me, but this masterpiece shows soldiers not as ...
by Eric M. Milillo "... on January 26, 2009
Written and directed by Stone, the story ...
by K. D. Madden "Gre... on October 05, 2008
I've read a couple of reviews that downgraded this film as being unrealistic. Of, course only the most sensational aspects of the war are portrayed. Duh, it's a movie. I wasn't over there. The war mercifully ended weeks before I would have been. I do ...
by The Great Gonzo "... on August 15, 2008
Actually, a must have for anyone who enjoys a good picture. All star cast, great story, truly moving in an emotional ...
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