Platoon (1986)
Oliver Stone’s 1986 Vietnam drama. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe. Won Best Picture. Stone’s own combat experience.
This page collects the films featuring Tom Berenger reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Gettysburg (1993)”, “Platoon (1986)”, and “The Dogs of War (1980)”. Each review examines the performance and the role it plays in the film’s larger design, approaching the work as storytelling first. The collection grows as further titles are added.
Oliver Stone’s 1986 Vietnam drama. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe. Won Best Picture. Stone’s own combat experience.
Irvin’s 1980 mercenary thriller. Christopher Walken leads a coup in a fictional African country. Frederick Forsyth source. Among the cleanest 1980s mercenary films.
Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Ronald F. Maxwell directed it. Tom Berenger plays…