Diagonaldi Very well executed

GazerRise Fantastic!

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to Born On The 4th Of July (1988)Plot In A Paragraph: The biography of Ron Kovic (Crusie) 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.Anyone who thought Cruise was just a pretty boy, who could not act, were proved wrong with this powerful movie. He was rightly nominated for an Oscar, and I don't think there will have been too many complaining had he won. He really showcased his acting chops here. The movie was nominated for 8 Oscars winning 2. Best Film Editing and Best Director for Oliver Stone. I can see why this powerful movie is not to everyone's taste. It certainly isn't one I watch a lot, but that doesn't mean it is not a brilliant piece of movie-making. This is the first serious drama Cruise has not had a more famous co lead, and he does not disappoint. If anyone has not seen this movie I urge you to check it out!! The battle scenes are exactly how I imagine the confusion of gunfight in a war zone to be and the scenes in the hospital are brutally honest in their horror. It could have been easy for Cruise to fall into a number of traps with this performance and he doesn't!! Similar with Stone, his direction could have wondered into other directions, but it doesn't!! It sticks true to the heart of its story!! As painful as it is. It's interesting that the movie poster has a youthful Cruise on it, as it's not how he looks for the majority of the movie. Born On The Fourth Of July grossed $70 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 17th highest grossing movie of 1989.

adonis98-743-186503 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. Born on the 4th of July is kinda a very hard movie to sit threw not because it's bad or anything it's a great film it's just hard to sit threw the whole damn thing watching Ron Kovic (Cruise) paralyzed in a wheel chair with some people making fun of him without respecting him and what he sacrificed for his country and Tom Cruise gives an amazing performance and as the years go by you feel more for this guy and watching him like this is very sad and although the whole cast is good i think Oliver Stone did the best job with Tom Cruise mostly and if you like him as an actor and like this kind of movies you will not be disappointed.

gamay9 Why does Sundance air this film on Independence Day....it is an anti-war movie? I'm a Vietnam veteran and know that Redford is a liberal a-hole. What war do Redford and Oliver Stone think was patriotic and necessary? Probably none; 'ich spreche Deutsch' and would, if we had not entered WWII. There were many 'goofs' in this film.....check them out, including Mickey Mantle hitting HR #491 at the wrong time. Actually, Hank Aaron was a much better player than Mantle, but Milwaukee was 'Bush League' in 1957 when they took the Yankees 4 games to 3.... according to the New York media, which felt that NYC was the only city that counted. The acting was superior, probably the best of Tom Cruise's career, which is why I rate the film as a '7.' Oliver Stone had been wiser if he left the screenplay up to Ron Kovic, instead of meddling and taking credit as a co-screenwriter. Who knew more of Ron's experiences than himself?

Byron Brubaker (hypathio7) This movie left me shaken and choked up! It pays homage to The Best Years of Our Lives and perhaps some other films about vets returning home. But specifically Best Years, I think, with the shot of Ron Kovic after he has become paralyzed and finally returns to his parents' house staring at his high school wrestling picture in his old room. Harold Russell in Best Years does the exact same thing becoming lost in the old picture from his high school athletics career when he felt he was a whole person. Both of these movies deal with men who have lost some part of themselves and have to discover how to gain strength and courage and acceptance to be a whole man again. By exploring Ron's youth, Born on the Fourth of July shows that the story is really about pressure and failure and confusion and how we deal with those things. This is an epic story with a tremendous supporting cast. It's about a boy who becomes a soldier, a soldier who becomes paralyzed, a paraplegic who becomes an outcast all the while searching for his humanity!! Sometimes it takes an outcast to speak the truth, someone who has been paralyzed to really stand for something, a soldier to fight for life, and of course it's the natural progression of things for a boy to triumphantly become a man!