Platoon
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- 30 second Trailer (00:31)
- Clip: This Is Hell (01:20)
Movie Info & Cast
Synopsis
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Cast
- Tom Berenger
- Willem Dafoe
- Charlie Sheen
- Forest Whitaker
- Francesco Quinn
- John C. McGinley
- Richard Edson
- Kevin Dillon
- Reggie Johnson
- Keith David
Atom User Reviews
Metacritic
It was Francois Truffaut who said that it's 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. If Truffaut had lived to see Platoon, the best film of 1986, he might have wanted to modify his opinion. Here is a movie that regards combat from ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and it does not make war look like fun.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book Dispatches.
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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