• Starring: Colin Farrell
  • Summary: At Fort Polk, Louisiana, thousands of young men prepare for Vietnam. The specter of combat hangs over the men of A-Company, Second Platoon, as they enter the final stage of infantry training. They will be sent to the war. But each man deals with this prospect in his own way. One man's defiance, however, galvanizes every member of the platoon. (20th Century Fox) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Negative: 4 out of 14
  1. A strong, gritty, powerful piece of film making, and one of the three or four best movies made about the Vietnam era.
  2. Beneath the rough vérité exterior beats the same slick, corny heart.
  3. 30
    Despite melodramatic lapses -- the gripping action recalls Walter Hill's 1981 "Southern Comfort" -- this is Schumacher's most ambitions film since "Falling Down" in 1993, and it plays to his strengths with young actors.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8

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