Full Metal Jacket [1987] [DVD]
Amazon.co.uk Review
One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the late 1980s, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is essentially split into two stories linked by a number of characters. The film follows new recruit Joker (Matthew Modine) and his fellow soldiers through their basic training and into combat in Vietnam. The first half is a chilling portrayal of military brutality and de-humanisation, mainly at the hands of Sgt Hartman (played at a level of staggering intensity by ex-Marine Lee Ermey), that centres around the tragic character of Private Pyle, a young man pushed to the edge of his endurance. The tone of the film is no less harsh when transported to the combat zone as we see the results of the training process in action: the young men turned into unquestioning killing machines. Joker is perhaps the one exception, a soldier with “Born to Kill” written on his helmet who also sports a peace sign on his lapel. But the film finds itself caught in the tra… More >>
Full Metal Jacket [1987] [DVD]
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My mate Chris watched an hour of full metal jacket and turned it off. “Boring beyond belief”, that’s what he reckoned.
Rating: 1 / 5
if you won’t a dvd with lots guns,bullet blood and a bit of heorism!!!!…..this isn’t your film (nor was it mine when i bought it for those reasons)this films completely over rated and ashams good old classic war flims,with a trebble story line,awful cast and short running time.I don’t really gatherd much from the film and all i did gather was that american soilders shabby soilder who are all soo stupid,always get shot and there only goal when the wake up on a monday moning is to shag aleast to korena hookers before friday evening.If you won’t a really good war film/dvd series i suggest .1 black hawk down 2.behind enermy lines 1,2,33.andy mcnabs tour of duty/commando’s on the frontline 4.saving private ryan 5.sas are you tough enough/ross kemp in/returns to afhganistan.
thanks alot
Rating: 1 / 5
I found this film terribly boring/. The majority of the film is about the units training at the barracks….. I found nothing interesting or entertaining about this part. The next part was when they had gone off to vietnam. There was one battle which was nothing compared to other way films ive seen. The most amusing part for me was when a prostitute was trying to sell herself to the soldiers!
These are just my opinions and i realise that many people dissagree, but if you are wanting a war movie with great battles and realism, this is not for you.
Rating: 1 / 5
This film was very poor, it has to come bottom of the list for war films. The film starts off with training and surprisingly this is the best part of the movie. For 30 minutes after the training, you don’t follow a combat role around, you follow a writer (how fun) and then when you finally get to the last part of the film where you see some combat, and i mean some; there are about 5 people who die and it seems that they spent twenty minutes of the film making the characters hesitate on whether to move up to an injured soldier or not. An awful film, only bother watching the first 10 minutes if your crazy enough to buy it.
Rating: 2 / 5
Perhaps, in its time, this film worked as a social commentary.
Perhaps in the 1970′s U.K. this film tugged on our conscious, but I’m afraid post Iraq ‘we are a bit more sophisticated.’
I’ve never understood that ‘phrase’ when politicians use it today, but now having seen this film I sort of understand where they are coming from.
Perhaps notable as the first ‘war commentary’ film
A valiant attempt of its era, but says nothing compared to today’s issues.
There are far better Vietnam war films
Rating: 1 / 5