‘Born on the Fourth of July’ Download and Reviews

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Born on the Fourth of July tagline: A story of innocence lost and courage found.

Born on the Fourth of July DVD Cover Download “Born on the Fourth of July” 1989	Actors: Tom Cruise Ron Kovic Raymond J. Barry Mr. Kovic Caroline Kava Mrs. Kovic Josh Evans Tommy Kovic Jamie Talisman Jimmy Kovic Anne Bobby Suzanne Kovic Samantha Larkin Patty Kovic Tom Berenger Recruiting Gunnery Sgt. Hayes Frank Whaley Timmy Jerry Levine Steve Boyer Richard Panebianco Joey Walsh Rob Camilletti Tommy Finnelli Stephen Baldwin Billy Vorsovich Michael McTighe Danny Fantozzi Richard Haus Recruiting Sgt. Bowers
	Directors: Oliver Stone
	IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 out of 30,380 votes

“Born on the Fourth of July” Movie Review

“Born on the Fourth of July” Plot Summary

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

A forgotten masterpiece!

This has to be one of the the best war films I have ever seen. Where ‘Saving Private Ryan’ fell into a whirlpool of schmaltz or where ‘The Deer Hunter’ caught ‘bad ending’ syndrome, ‘Born’ stood out. It is also the best Oliver Stone film I have ever seen. Where ‘Platoon’ looked cheap and lacked characterisation, where ‘JFK’ felt smothered in special guest cameos, where ‘Natural Born Killers’ looked silly and cartoonish and well, where ‘Scarface’ was just plain shameful, ‘Born On the Fourth of July’ stands out above all of these titles. It confronts you with the true, unrelenting horrors of the Vietnam war with the use of disturbing flashback sequences, kinetically energetic gun battles and slow-motion violence

This film also proved that Cruise was an artistically satisfying actor as well as a commercial one (think ‘Top Gun’). I think we can all agree that this was definitely his tour de force (and, if you’re a ‘Usual Suspects’ fan, you can actually spot Stephen ‘McManus’ Baldwin in the scene where Ronnie and his friends are discussing their futures in a cafe). Sorry if I went a little off the topic at hand there, but I thought some of you might find that interesting. Anyway, if I had to summarise ‘Born On the Fourth of July’ in a few words I’d say something along the lines of really, really, really good or more poetically, moving and unforgettable.

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