Platoon (2006)

There had been caustic war movies before, of course. Think of Robert Aldrich's Attack, the 1956 World War Two film whose cynicism and bitterness feels birthed in the battles of Korea. Then there was M*A*S*H, set in Korea but playing in 1970 through the tragic headlines and TV news gore of the Vietnam War. More recently there's Malick's Thin Red Line musings, Spielberg's salvation and Ridley Scott's ra-ra immediacy...But none of these equal the power of chaos and rage in Oliver Stone's Platoon. It will still blow you away. This 'Ultimate Edition' may have taken a while to journey over the Atlantic, but it lives up to its dog-tag: the supplementary material is exemplary.

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