Full Metal Jacket
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 26, 1987
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BradySmithJun 16, 2013
Overrated is the word. Not bad. Definitely not bad, but it's quality degrades as the movie goes on. It starts out as a vicious, surreal, and engagingly strange vision when it's in the boot camp stage of things, but when the characters goOverrated is the word. Not bad. Definitely not bad, but it's quality degrades as the movie goes on. It starts out as a vicious, surreal, and engagingly strange vision when it's in the boot camp stage of things, but when the characters go to war it starts to fall apart. You can definitely tell that it's a Kubrick movie. It has all of his signature style, such as his use of the wide angle lens and backwards moving cameras. But this movie can't escape its second half. Its second half feels empty and lifeless. It also doesn't help that it ends on an anti climactic note. It starts out feeling like it's going to be something epic, but ends being contrived, and forgettable, and therefore Kubrick's vision loses most of its power.… Expand
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TyranianJan 6, 2020
Reasonably good satiric-war film that's well-directed but isn't as perceptive as it thinks it is.
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4
imthenoobAug 6, 2020
The first half of the movie is brilliant, The second half is like watching an entirely different movie that is nowhere near as good as the first half. It's a straightforward, predictable mess that just fails to drive home all the points thatThe first half of the movie is brilliant, The second half is like watching an entirely different movie that is nowhere near as good as the first half. It's a straightforward, predictable mess that just fails to drive home all the points that were perfectly introduced in the first half. It's actually kind of disappointing IMO.… Expand
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4
amheretojudgeMar 1, 2018
sir, no sir..

Full Metal Jacket Just like The Clockwork Orange, it takes too much time to prove a point and even though it is finely detailed and explicitly executed the journey for around 2 hours just doesn't seem worthy at the end.sir, no sir..

Full Metal Jacket

Just like The Clockwork Orange, it takes too much time to prove a point and even though it is finely detailed and explicitly executed the journey for around 2 hours just doesn't seem worthy at the end. Stanley Kubrick's smart adaptation and perfect execution works on its level and won't disappoint the fans but fails to deliver anything beyond that as the mere far fetched idea fades off slowly before one's eyes where even lousy editing too, becomes responsible. Matthew Modine at the centre of it pulls it off swiftly and smoothly but is overpowered by a stunning performance by Vincent D'Onofrio despite of just being a supportive character. Full Metal Jacket resonates too much with The Clockwork Orange as it raises similar questions, offers enough doubts and thrills which becomes redundant at a certain point and as always lacks better editing.… Expand
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FilipeNetoJun 29, 2018
This is another movie about the Vietnam War. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, its full of violence and shocking scenes, as the director likes. However, in this particular case, violence is welcome, showing us the inhumanity of war, very clear andThis is another movie about the Vietnam War. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, its full of violence and shocking scenes, as the director likes. However, in this particular case, violence is welcome, showing us the inhumanity of war, very clear and explicit, from the brutal recruiting of the Marines to the crudeness of the battlefield. It's hard to watch this movie, but this, combined with raw and intense realism, makes the film truly unforgettable. However, this movie is too much like "Apocalypse Now". Coppola's film has the same message, the same environment, the same violence and event a very close soundtrack. It's impossible not to observe this similarities without consider how much this film could be more original and is not. Okay, the early scenes, in the military recruit, are a good addition to the film and a good differential, but it's not enough. It even seems that Kubrick simply wanted to do a remake of "Apocalypse Now"...… Expand
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jonslowJan 7, 2019
Overrated is the word. Not bad. Definitely not bad, but it's quality degrades as the movie goes on. It starts out as a vicious, surreal, and engagingly strange vision when it's in the boot camp stage of things, but when the characters go toOverrated is the word. Not bad. Definitely not bad, but it's quality degrades as the movie goes on. It starts out as a vicious, surreal, and engagingly strange vision when it's in the boot camp stage of things, but when the characters go to war it starts to fall apart.… Expand
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FaFCSrDec 8, 2020
A Kubrick movie with political/ideological agenda. A great movie but with a superficial view of the human and war.
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