Only two winners left from the 80's, so now it's time to review Platoon.
Plot: The story focuses around Chris Taylor who volunteers to fight in Vietnam. He is assigned to Bravo Company where he meets a culturally diverse group of soldiers lead by Sargent Barnes and Sargent Elias. Throughout the film, Taylor witnesses the terrors of Vietnam from the enemy and sometimes even from his fellow soldiers.
I was surprised to eventually learn that Oliver Stone directed this movie out of his own personal experiences in fighting Vietnam himself. But then again you can tell by how this movie turned out. It covered so many things that happened to soldiers in Vietnam. I mean sure there's all the blood and gore and fellow soldiers dying like any war film, but then you have the misery and horror of venturing the jungle, soldiers searching and destroying villages, soldiers having a feud against another and what have you. And the acting is great - my personal favorites were Charlie Sheen as Taylor and William Dafoe as Sargent Elias - and the battles where very epic and of coarse, give a very dark and suspenseful look at being in the battle lines as a war film naturally should.
And that's my review for Platoon. It has great acting, well done action, and thanks to Stone's knowledge of the war based on his own experience, it's a much deeper and harsher look at what the soldiers in Vietnam went through.
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