[VOA]

I am not one who goes out to see new movies when they are released.

Same here, but I did the impetuous thing and got to see it at the 3:30PM showing
in West Los Angeles.

Take a few Kleenex. There were more than a couple of older fellows with reddened
eyes after the show was over.

Forget "Platoon". This is THE Vietnam Era film, respectful, truthful,
emotional without being over-the-top with sentimentality, and honest
about the crappy treatment of vets.
And didn't demonize the enemy...but at the same time didn't slip into moral relativism.

[RightWingMama]

and honest about the crappy treatment of vets.

How true. One of the saddest scenes in the movie was the soldier being wheeled through the airport...and being ignored.