Beautiful redemption story with much more to it!
10/10
Author: axismladen from Croatia
26 June 2010

Born On The Fourth Of July is a great movie! One of many masterpieces that are not completely recognized as such! Ronnie Kovic is a young man living in a small town in the time of the Vietnam War! All filled with pride and honor he decides to go to war and fight for his country! The story is basically centered on that point on! War changes his entire life and he must face the fact that he was, as many other's, tricked to go to war and fight against so called '' communism disease ''! The story follows his path of redemption towards accepting that everything he believed in and fought for was not as pure and sacred as he thought! And also about him dealing with some thing's he's done that are his burden ever since!

The movie is directed great, written great and acted great! This is my favorite Oliver Stone movie and this is definitely Tom's greatest performance!!! Tom Cruise was just brilliant and it's a shame he didn't win an Oscar for The Best Leading Role!!! Just as it's a shame that the movie didn't win for The Best Picture and The Best Screenplay!!!Watch this movie!!! It will make you feel a lot better and see thing's much clearly! This is a masterpiece!!!

And to end my comment, i will quote Ron Kovic,

'' I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave. ''