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Struggling against living in the dangerous jungles of Vietnam, where he fights in a bloody war, the thing that affects badly on his personality, as he becomes lonely and avoids people, but incidents come to climax when he finds himself involved in a bloody fight between trips, the thing that makes his life in danger.
3 August 1959, New York City, New York, USA
27 April 1958, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
19 April 1952, USA
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, USA
3 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
8 October 1944, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
4 December 1954, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
31 May 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 September 1946, New York City, New York, USA
24 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 March 1963, Rome, Lazio, Italy
1 January 1954, New Rochelle, New York, USA
February 24, 2014
Platoon is not the definitive Vietnam statement that Stone may have intended, or that others are already claiming it to be. But it is a powerful document about that sad war, and a riveting piece of moviemaking.February 24, 2014
There are images in Platoon so powerful that they seem, rather than simply imprinted on celluloid, to have been burned into memory.February 24, 2014
Precisely because Stone forces you to experience a grunt's tunnel vision and rage, Platoon is a film of inspiring empathy and awesome force. Curiously, that same tunnelvision in the end compromises Platoon.February 22, 2015
This film is an act of courage. Stone, the gutsy writer-director, records in a devastating barrage of images the relentless horror and the senseless carnage experienced by far too many Americans in Vietnam.February 19, 2013
This is movie-making with a zealot's fervor.February 24, 2014
Oliver Stone tries ambitiously to capture the full horror and frenzy of combat in Southeast Asia, but his technical skill outstrips his insight.January 21, 2014
No sane person should want to get any closer to war than this film.February 24, 2014
This is a modern classic and a personal exorcism for its director.February 24, 2014
The utter chaos of war in Vietnam is brilliantly portrayed. No one can deny this film the power of its images and the weight of all-pervasive terror it creates.October 02, 2013
One of the best Vietnam films out there. And this is coming from a person who thinks that modern-day filmmaker Oliver Stone is a big, fat windbag.February 22, 2015
Stone's strongest suit, however, isn't so much realism as it is his way of blending immediacy and insight.February 19, 2013
Platoon is filled with one fine performance after another, and one can only wish that every person who saw the cartoonish war fantasy that was Rambo would buy a ticket to Platoon and bear witness to something closer to the truth.