Platoon (Blu-ray + DVD) R
The first casualty of war is innocence.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2011
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger & Willem Dafoe | |
Featured: | Forest Whitaker, Keith David, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon & Johnny Depp | |
Directed by | Oliver Stone | |
Edited by | Claire Simpson | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue |
Entertainment Reviews:
Although Platoon is not the easiest film to watch, it is one of the best at reminding us that the cinema is not always interested in evading or distorting history. Sometimes it tells the truth.
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Boston Globe
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.
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Philadelphia Daily News
Rating: 3.5/4 --
There are images in Platoon so powerful that they seem, rather than simply imprinted on celluloid, to have been burned into memory.
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Chicago Tribune
It's not a film that will make film history, but intelligently takes advantage of that history to provide a shred of light to a sordid and still American debate. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: A+ --
Platoon (1986) is a harrowing, visceral, ultra-realistic, gutsy, visually-shattering Vietnam-war film, based on the writer/director's own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier. The insightful Best Picture-winning war film
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AMC Filmsite
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.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Stone's strongest suit, however, isn't so much realism as it is his way of blending immediacy and insight.
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Orlando Sentinel
Product Description:
Winner* of 4 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar®-winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. "Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing" (Leonard Maltin), it is "a dark, unforgettable memorial" (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar®-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value life.
Keywords:
Action
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Vietnam
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Good Vs. Evil
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Jungle
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Recommended
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Military
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Vietnam War
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Essential Cinema