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.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb 2013
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This is movie-making with a zealot's fervor.
– Sheila Benson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb 2013
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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.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
24 Feb 2014
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There are images in Platoon so powerful that they seem, rather than simply imprinted on celluloid, to have been burned into memory.