A great movie

I already saw this movie but, since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, after all these years, I was glad to see that the damned thing was still quite powerful and, in my opinion, it remains the best movie about the Vietnam war, no less than that. In fact, it might even be my favorite war movie. I mean, there are some other pretty good movies about the suject, like ‘Full Metal Jacket’ for example, but this flick is just way better than the rest though. The making-off was already the stuff of legend as the actors had to spend 2 weeks in a boot camp to get into the right ‘mood’ and Stone made sure that all the details were accurate. Stone, who was himself a Vietnam veteran, struggled for more than a decade to manage to make this movie (he even tried to cast Jim Morrison at some point) but it was eventually a huge financial and critical success. Back then, it even won the Best Picture Academy award and Oliver Stone’s career was finally launched for good and, for a while, he was one of the most interesting American directors at work. Indeed, he kept making some really interesting pictures but they unfortunately never reached the level of this masterpiece. Coming back on our main feature, at the end of the day, it is a really fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking war tale with some fully fledged characters. Hell, there was even Johnny Depp in it… What else do you need? The rest of the cast was also pretty neat (Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon). Anyway, to conclude, it is a classic, one of the best movies on this genre and it is definitely worth a look.

9/10