Platoon
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Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Platoon:

Charlie Sheen
Willem Dafoe
Tom Berenger
Kevin Dillon
Forest Whitaker
Mark Moses

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Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

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The New York Times - 10/10 by Vincent CanbyPossibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book "Dispatches."
Newsweek - 10/10 by David AnsenStone's eye-blistering images possess an awesome power, which sets the senses reeling and leaves the mind disturbed.
Chicago Tribune - 10/10 by Gene SiskelPlatoon 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.
New Yorker - 10/10 by Pauline KaelI know that Platoon is being acclaimed for its realism, and I expect to be chastened for being a woman finding fault with a war film. But I've probably seen as much combat as most of the men saying, 'This is how war is.'
Radio Times - 10/10 by Adrian TurnerThis is a modern classic and a personal exorcism for its director.
ReelViews - 10/10 by James BerardinelliIf Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter are like slaps to the face, Platoon is a punch to the gut.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Pat GrahamHe makes a good job of it, though the wider aspirations to contemporary relevance seem dubious. Stone seeks large lessons in the experiences of ordinary men in battle, but it isn't clear Vietnam has anything new to offer: war is hell and somebody inevitably gets shafted, but the uniqueness of this conflict lies away from the military arena: in politics, psychology, and history. For all the purported naturalism, the film seems resolutely schematic, and the attitudes shaping the drama are far from open-ended.
Cinema Sight - 10/10 by Wesley LovellA terrific film from a filmmaker long absent from his art, Platoon is a frightening and challenging look into the battlefield operations of Vietnam.
TheWorldJournal.com - 10/10 by Frank OchiengStone's penetrating look at the unsettling dynamics of war. Uniquely absorbing and mind-numbing in forethought.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertIt 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.

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