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5 May 5th, 2008 

13 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

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A truly brilliant film

Disadvantages:
The second half of the film

Recommendable Yes:

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This has to be another film that's in my top 10. A truly brilliant film with all round quality throughout.

Plot

This film follows the life of a young army recruit that is nicknamed Joker as he goes though training and then gets moved to Vietnam for a tour of duty. During training, he is forced to work with the most incompetent private in the platoon, nicknamed Private pyles, who is soon detested by everyone. [WARNING SPOILER!!!] Pyles soon becomes insane and ends up killing the drill sergeant before turning the rifle upon himself. [SPOILER END!!!] The second half of the film follows Joker as he goes into the field to take photos and ends up in a fiery battle in vietnam. I think the plot starts to go downhill after the drill sergeant is killed as he is by far the best character in this film.

Characters

As i've already said, the drill sergeant was the best character in this film by adding comeical value to the film with his strange and wonderful insults. The acting thoughout this film is brilliant with the actors remaining to be sincere throughout the drill sergeant shouting at them. Vincent D'Onofrio who plays private pyles really showed exceptional acting and the audience can easily see his turn from sanity.

Special Effects

Ill just try and keep this section pretty brief, the special effects are actually pretty good for the year it was made in.

A brilliant film that must be watched by everyone at one point in their lives. Its certainly memorable. 

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buckyohare 05.05.2008 19:32

That's a decent review there, but you've got a pretty big spoiler smack-bang in the middle with no warning whatsoever! Luckily I've already seen the film and was just reading out of interest, but I think you're giving too much of the plot away - when I first saw the film it was a huge shock to me when Pyles killed the Drill Sergeant and then himself, and I wouldn't want to ruin it for anyone that has not seen it! Just my thoughts! (I hate spoilers as you can probably tell!)

headcase44 05.05.2008 19:17

Good review.... Well laid out and interesting....Thanks. J.

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