I loathe Oliver Stone and other than "Platoon", have never watched any of his movies.
As for the movie itself, I've seen worse but have also seen thousands better. Being a liberal, Stone naturally painted the American soldiers in Vietnam in the worst possible light. I was there in '66-'67 and many of the bad things he showed had not yet begun to take hold, such as the heavy drug usage, etc.
My personal favorite of the Vietnam War films is "Hamburger Hill". It's a darn good movie, with great performances by all. I suppose you could characterize it as anti-war also, as it shows the absolute stupidity of ordering American soldiers to take a heavily-defended hill from the NVA, which they do but with great casualties, and then the idiot leaders in either Saigon or Washington decide to pull our boys off the hill and give it right back to the NVA. For no good reason at all. Which meant all those American boys died for nothing.
