Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Platoon’: Soldiers Agree—Most Realistic War Movie Ever Made

R | 2h | Drama, War | 6 February 1987 (USA)

I used to tend bar near Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, which, in the early ‘90s, was Crack Cocaine Central. We had an interesting regular: Freddy, in his mid-30s, wore combat boots, an army jacket, skull tattoos, an drab-olive green bandana, and lamented that he’d missed his mission in life. Freddy felt deeply that he should have been in “The ‘Nam.” Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” shows why.