Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Academy Awards: Oscar won & 508 nominated
Won 4 awards & 13 nominations
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Year

1987

Runtime

1 h 56 min

Genres

Drama, War

Countries

United Kingdom, United States

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Writers

Gustav Hasford, Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr

Plotline

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.

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Starring

Matthew Modine

Adam Baldwin

Vincent D'Onofrio

R. Lee Ermey

Arliss Howard

Main cast

Matthew Modine Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis

Adam Baldwin Animal Mother

Vincent D'Onofrio Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence

R. Lee Ermey Gny. Sgt. Hartman

Dorian Harewood Eightball

Kevyn Major Howard Rafterman

Arliss Howard Pvt. Cowboy

Ed O'Ross Lt. Touchdown

John Terry Lt. Lockhart

Kieron Jecchinis Crazy Earl

Kirk Taylor Payback

Tim Colceri Doorgunner

Jon Stafford Doc Jay

Bruce Boa Poge Colonel

Ian Tyler Lt. Cleves

Sal Lopez T.H.E. Rock

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May be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour. more

What makes the film stunning is less its metaphorical scheme than its cinematic style. Always a matter of flowing camera movement, Kubrick has photographed much of the action with long "traveling shots" that capture time and space as a seamless whole, not fractured into the bits and pieces of standard editing techniques.

Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination. more

The most eloquent and exacting vision of the war to date... Inspired with technique rather than overblown with it, Kubrick, the filmmaker's filmmaker, lays one on you. more

Elliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes...and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since "Dr. Strangelove," as well as the most horrific; the first section alone accomplishes most of what "The Shining" failed to do. more

An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama. more

We've seen it all before, most recently in "Gardens of Stone," most romantically in "An Officer and a Gentleman," but never more elegantly than here as Kubrick sustains the athletic ballet of obstacle courses and white-glove inspections for a breathtaking 40 minutes. more

A perversely fascinating movie--one that answers no questions, offers no hope and has little meaning. In a way this is perfect for what the film has to say about war, but you find yourself numbed and apathetic as the film progresses. more

The footage on the Paris Island obstacle course is powerful. But Full Metal Jacket is uncertain where to go, and the movie's climax, which Kubrick obviously intends to be a mighty moral revelation, seems phoned in from earlier war pictures. more

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Wow. Profanity...there's a lot of it. That's not all I took away from this. There was also violence, sex, death, racism, and fear. You were told to grow up, become a man, and turn what little you had in self worth into abilities that would lead to victory. But war is hell, as everyone knows, so there was little in happiness seen. You observed the truth of Vietnam, but way more impressive, you also saw how far a man can go with just a rifle, and little conscience or ambition. It took a lot out of me to watch, but it gave me so much more. more

While Stanley Kubrick's vision of Vietnam is extremely entertaining and visually stunning, it has nothing on films like Platoon or Apocalypse Now. It's really like two different war movies put together, which is a strength but also a weakness. It feels like you are cheated out of a real whole story and given some moments of someone's military experience. Pvt. Joker is a completely uninteresting character, but somehow the supporting characters balance everything out. It's really Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin and Vincent D'Onofrio that carry the movie and make it the semi-masterpiece that it is.... more

The career of Stanley Kubrick seems to be him taking on a popular genre and blowing the competition out of the water. 2001 was his answer to the sci-fi films of the 1950's and '60's. A Clockwork Orange defined the ultra violent films that would follow it during the 1970's. The Shining was his attempt to make a good, psychological horror film. Full Metal Jacket follows the line by tackling a genre that exploded during the mid 1980's: the Vietnam war film. From Platoon to Rambo the topic had been tackled, starting with glorious fare like Apocalypse Now and the Deer Hunter. Now it was... more

"7-6-2 millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket." This is a hard one to review. Basically it's one of the best war movies ever made and one of my personal favourites by Stanley Kubrick. What is it that makes it so special? Let's try to bring out the awesomeness of it for you to read... The characters. Private Gomer Pyle is a character that each and every one, who even remotelly call themselves filmbuffs, should now by name. Vincent D'Onofrio's performance gave him a career. It is so memorable and so... frightening. In the beginning he's just a typical slow kind of guy but because he can't help... more

Amazon Verified Purchase ( What's this? ) If you're a fan of this film like me and had bought the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD before and thought "This is hi-def?", then you're in for a treat. This newly remastered version has a sharper picture and better color image and new commentaries to boot. While not as stunning a transfer as "The Shining" or "2001", this is still a much improved re-release. Trade in your old copy and purchase with confidence. more

Stanley Kubrick has been quoted as saying that with Full Metal Jacket, he wanted to make a war film, as opposed to an ANTI-war film. Condemning war is easily. It's a moral no-brainer. Trying to understand its nature is something far more challenging. As a result, Full Metal Jacket does something far more subtle and difficult than simply tell us that War is Hell (although it does that, too). To understand what and how, one must consider the film's structure: Full Metal Jacket is split brutally into two parts, the first of which follows our hero, Private Joker (Matthew Modine) through basic... more

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