Editing Platoon (film) (section)

==Reception==
===Critical response===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Platoon'' has an approval rating of 89% based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Informed by director Oliver Stone's personal experiences in Vietnam, ''Platoon'' forgoes easy sermonizing in favor of a harrowing, ground-level view of war, bolstered by no-holds-barred performances from Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe."<ref>{{Cite web |title=''Platoon'' (1986) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/platoon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617052609/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/platoon |archive-date=June 17, 2022 |access-date=August 22, 2022 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]]}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 92 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{Cite web |title=''Platoon'' Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/platoon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219065512/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/platoon |archive-date=February 19, 2018 |access-date=March 1, 2018 |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Platoon |url=https://m.cinemascore.com |url-status=live |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20170916153548/https://m.cinemascore.com/ |archive-date=September 16, 2017 |access-date=January 28, 2018 |website=[[CinemaScore]]}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] gave it four out of four stars, calling it the best film of the year, and the ninth best of the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=December 30, 1986 |title=Platoon Movie Review & Film Summary (1986) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/platoon-1986 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110233753/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/platoon-1986 |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=November 30, 2014 |website=Roger Ebert}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |last2=Siskel |first2=Gene |date=May 3, 2011 |title=Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969-1998) - Inner Mind |url=http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108124328/http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |access-date=November 30, 2014 |website=innermind}}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] also awarded the film four out of four stars,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Siskel |first=Gene |date=January 2, 1987 |title=Flick Of Week: 'Platoon' Shows The Real Vietnam |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/01/02/flick-of-week-platoon-shows-the-real-vietnam/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924045725/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-01-02/entertainment/8701010452_1_platoon-star-flick |archive-date=September 24, 2017 |access-date=September 23, 2017 |work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref> and observed that Vietnam War veterans greatly identified with the film.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gene Siskel |date=April 1, 1987 |title=A Test For 'Platoon': Battle Vets Say The Film Lacks Only The Taste And The Smell Of Death |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/01/04/a-test-for-platoon/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000713/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-01-04/entertainment/8701020711_1_vietnam-war-film-american-platoon-stone-s-film |archive-date=September 29, 2017 |access-date=September 28, 2017 |work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref> In his ''[[New York Times]]'' review, [[Vincent Canby]] described ''Platoon'' as "possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since [[Michael Herr]]'s vigorous and hallucinatory book ''[[Dispatches (book)|Dispatches]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 19, 1986 |title=The Vietnam War in Stone's "Platoon" - New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/platoon-re.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524200856/http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/platoon-re.html |archive-date=May 24, 2017 |access-date=March 4, 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

"The film has been widely acclaimed," [[Pauline Kael]] admitted, "but some may feel that Stone takes too many melodramatic shortcuts, and that there's too much filtered light, too much poetic license, and too damn much romanticized insanity ... The movie crowds you; it doesn't leave you room for an honest emotion."<ref name="Kael" />

War correspondent [[Wallace Terry]] criticized the film's portrayal of its [[African Americans|African-American]] characters.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilhelm |first=Maria |date=April 20, 1987 |title=An Angry Vietnam War Correspondent Charges That Black Combat Soldiers Are Platoon's M.i.a.s |url=https://people.com/archive/an-angry-vietnam-war-correspondent-charges-that-black-combat-soldiers-are-platoons-m-i-a-s-vol-27-no-16/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718150107/https://people.com/archive/an-angry-vietnam-war-correspondent-charges-that-black-combat-soldiers-are-platoons-m-i-a-s-vol-27-no-16/ |archive-date=July 18, 2020 |access-date=July 22, 2020 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref> Some Vietnam War veterans criticized the film for showing the killing of civilians, drug use among soldiers, and its portrayal of officers as ineffective. Others praised Stone for a realistic depiction of the war.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Effects of movie &#039;Platoon&#039; showing up in vet centers - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/02/15/Effects-of-movie-Platoon-showing-up-in-vet-centers/8809540363600/ |access-date=December 29, 2024 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oliver Stone, writer and director of &#039;Platoon,&#039; the Oscar-winning... - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/04/08/Oliver-Stone-writer-and-director-of-Platoon-the-Oscar-winning/5254544852800/ |access-date=December 29, 2024 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |date=January 26, 1987 |title=Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film |url=https://time.com/3834671/platoon-oliver-stone-charlie-sheen-movie-review/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229085509/https://time.com/3834671/platoon-oliver-stone-charlie-sheen-movie-review/ |archive-date=December 29, 2024 |access-date=December 29, 2024 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}</ref>