Review of Platoon (1986) by Kathleen Carroll for New York Daily News — 22 Feb 2015
This mercilessly intense movie is definitely not for the faint of heart. The atmosphere remains highly charged from beginning to end. There’s no letup, nary a suggestion of humor to break the tension.
The viewer remains as stunned and repelled by the action as the movie’s well-bred narrator, an idealistic young volunteer (played effectively by Charlie Sheen) who naively expects to find himself by sharing the mud with the mostly poor and uneducated grunts.
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This review of Platoon (1986) was written by Kathleen Carroll and published by New York Daily News on 22 Feb 2015.
Platoon has generally received very positive reviews.
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