Full Metal Jacket

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    Full Metal Jacket
    1987

    Synopsis

    A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

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    Cast

    • Matthew ModinePvt. Joker
    • Adam BaldwinAnimal Mother
    • Vincent D'OnofrioPvt. Pyle
    • R. Lee ErmeyGny. Sgt. Hartman
    • Dorian HarewoodEightball
    • Arliss HowardPvt. Cowboy
    • Kevyn Major HowardRafterman
    • Ed O'RossLt. Touchdown
    • John TerryLt. Lockhart
    • Bruce BoaPoge Colonel

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      Elliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes...and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since "Dr. Strangelove," as well as the most horrific; the first section alone accomplishes most of what "The Shining" failed to do.
    • 100

      Newsweek

      As brutally unsparing as "Platoon" was, it was ultimately warm and embracing. Kubrick's film is about as embracing as a full-metal-jacketed bullet in the gut. [29 June 1987]
    • 100

      The New York Times

      Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination.
    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      What makes the film stunning is less its metaphorical scheme than its cinematic style. Always a matter of flowing camera movement, Kubrick has photographed much of the action with long "traveling shots" that capture time and space as a seamless whole, not fractured into the bits and pieces of standard editing techniques. [26 June 1987]
    • 100

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      May be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour.
    • 90

      Variety

      An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama.
    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      The film has undeniable power, but it's an unusual and unsettling power, a product of a collision between red-hot material and the cool serenity with which Kubrick observes and accepts it. [26 June 1987]
    • 80

      TV Guide Magazine

      A perversely fascinating movie--one that answers no questions, offers no hope and has little meaning. In a way this is perfect for what the film has to say about war, but you find yourself numbed and apathetic as the film progresses.

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