Full Metal Jacket Reviews

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Good Points: Brilliant acting and tense storyline

Bad Points: None.

General comments: One of the top ten best war films ever made.
Film is in two halves. First half portrays Marine bootcamp and the training the soldiers undertake. The Marine Sergeant is/was actually a real life Marine Sergeant and not an actor. Brilliant lines and a twist in it ( I say no more).
The 2nd part is the story of the battle of Hue in (what was South) Vietnam - and tells out the guerilla warfare style battle there - boobytraps; female snipers; fear etc.
It's brutal and minimal - no glamourising war here in any respect.

The film is sourced from the excellent book 'The Short-timers' by Gustav Hasford and this is well worth reading too.

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Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is the story of ordinary Americans being turned into killing machines and sent to war. The first half of the film is both hilarious and harrowing as Ermey knocks his new recruits into shape. I tend only to only watch this half of the film now as i mainly enjoy Ermey's and Onofrio's performances and they are a joy to watch over and over again. I don't know why but the film kind of loses me from then on, i don't find it as gripping or entertaining and don't watc ...