Happy Birthday and Happy Fourth of July!
10/10
Author: TC-LeonK from Arlington, Virginia, USA
4 July 2012

First, Happy Fourth of July to everybody! Second, this movie is probably the best thing Oliver Stone ever directed along with the amazing collaboration of Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic and super star Tom Cruise. Born on the Fourth of July is a documentation of the horrors of the Vietnam war and its impact on the American society throughout the 60s and 70s when Communism was perceived as a threat to liberty.

Ron Kovic was a naive and patriotic young man whose devotion to his country caused him to pay a heavy price after being paralyzed for life, he eventually began to fight against the government that betrayed him and his fellow soldiers into going to Vietnam. Tom Cruise's performance was brilliant and he was able to reflect Kovic's anguish and pain as a paraplegic. He should've won an Academy Award for his role.