Full Metal Challenge DVD

Advantages: Fantastic soundtrack, cinematography, cast
Disadvantages: perhaps a little repetitive in places

...Kubrick’s penultimate movie abandons the viewer in the midst of the Vietnam War, camera cocked and loaded with harmful intent. Directing with the precision of a five star general, Kubrick leaves an indelible mark on cinema history. “Full Metal Jacket”, a film literally of two halves, opens with the world famous forty-minute boot camp saga, the precursor for films such as “Heartbreak ridge,” could serve as an entire film itself. The recruits shorn of their hair, and symbolically of their identity, are put through their paces by stereotypical drill instructor “Gunnery sergeant Hartman” (Lee Ermey,) who fires expletives faster than an M60 machinegun. Violently tearing away any human characteristics from the boys, he unites weapon with soldier; a key stone in the factory conveyor which spurts out fighting machines, which resemble robots... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: great dialogue, superb acting
Disadvantages: It ends, but doesn't end

...To describe Full Metal Jacket in one word would simple be amazing. There are no bad points in this film it just tells it how it is and it's not pleasant. I would personally say that my favourite scene, was when private pile shot himself in the toilet. It was so intense, and the light in that scene did it all for his repressed madness. Its ending is unique in a way that the story ends but the film does not. What I mean by that is the story comes to end when Joker shoots the woman, but it seems that the film could have gone on longer and maybe more into how Joker feels about it, like with 'Born on the Fourth of July'. I do not know why Kubrick decided to do it that way; it could be something to do with the way it was written.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: high action gun fighting
Disadvantages: bit boring at begining

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