The story starts off pretty standardly, and slowly devolves into something much darker and different as the film goes on.
Arguably the most famous war movie on the list, Francis Ford Coppola’s tale of a Vietnam soldier tasked with terminating a rogue officer “with extreme prejudice.”
Still, the early stuff seems to be spot on and this is, of course, an enduring movie.
This has led to some criticism from veterans, many of whom say the first third of the movie is a far more realistic depiction of war than the parts after.