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Platoon
The first casualty of war is innocence.
The first casualty of war is innocence.
Action, Drama, War - 1986
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As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
120 min
Release date:
19 Dec 1986
Country:
US, GB
Languages:
English, Vietnamese
Budget:
$6,000,000
Revenue:
$138,530,565
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. 24 wins & 15 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

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Platoon is different. It matters.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
24 Feb 2010
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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.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb 2014
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