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Name: Platoon
Director: Oliver Stone
Genre: action, drama, war
Released: 1986
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 8.1

Platoon has an iRankMovies score of 84.8/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Platoon (1986)

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Release:1986

Runtime:2h 0m

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Oliver Stone

Language:English

Genre

ActionDramaWar

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Keywords

Dying And DeathVietnam WarHelicopterAmbushWar CrimesVillageMineBunker

iRank85

Platoon rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 472K votes

Rotten Tomatoes89%

Metacritic92%

TMDb7.7/10· 5K votes

With 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 92/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Platoon

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.

Cast of Platoon

Charlie Sheen
as Chris Taylor
Willem Dafoe
as Sergeant Elias Grodin
Tom Berenger
as Sergeant Robert "Bob" Barnes
Kevin Dillon
as Bunny
Forest Whitaker
as Big Harold
Mark Moses
as Lieutenant Wolfe
Keith David
as King
Richard Edson
as Sal
Francesco Quinn
as Rhah
John C. McGinley
as Sergeant O'Neill
Johnny Depp
as Gator Lerner
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Reggie Johnson
as Junior

Platoon facts

Budget: $6M
Box office: $138.5M

Our take on Platoon

Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam drama plunges a naive recruit into the moral chaos of war, torn between two sergeants embodying its conscience and its cruelty. Visceral, autobiographical and unflinching, it stripped the glory from combat for a generation. If its raw intensity and moral reckoning gripped you, seek out unflinching war films about young soldiers losing their innocence in the field.

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