Review of Platoon (1986) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 01 Jan 2000

It was Francois Truffaut who said that it's not possible to make an anti-war movie, because all war movies, with their energy and sense of adventure, end up making combat look like fun. If Truffaut had lived to see Platoon, the best film of 1986, he might have wanted to modify his opinion.

Here is a movie that regards combat from ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and it does not make war look like fun.