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Movie Review for Full Metal Jacket
Movie Review for
Full Metal Jacket
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18 Reviews total.
Release date: 1987
Run length: 118 mins.
Categories:
Action/Adventure
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Drama
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Adaptation
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War
Summary:
Story follows a group of Marine recruits from the harrowing experience of boot camp to the horrifying battlefronts of Vietnam.
Reviews of Full Metal Jacket
By
Marjorie Baumgarten
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
The film’s most gut-wrenching horrors occur in the first half, thanks to the regimens imposed by ...
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
of Chicago Reader (7/0)
This is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since Dr. Strangelove, as well as the most horrific...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
[A] strangely shapeless film from the man whose work usually imposes a ferociously consistent vis...
By
Dan Jardine
of Cinemania (7/0)
The best American cinematic critique of the Vietnam war
By
David Keyes
of Cinemaphile.org (7/0)
The movie warrants a response that is perhaps the closest thing possible on film to witnessing th...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
That first half is jaw-droppingly good.
Reviews of Full Metal Jacket
By
John J. Puccio
of DVDTown.com (7/0)
...Kubrick's notion of how the military changes ordinary people into killing machines.
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
The best movie ever made about the American experience in Vietnam happens to have been filmed by ...
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (7/0)
Many call this the best war film ever, and they're not totally wrong.
By
Janet Maslin
of New York Times (7/0)
No one who sees Full Metal Jacket will easily put the film's last glimpse of D'Onofrio, or a grea...
By
Vincent Canby
of New York Times (7/0)
Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going ...
By
Mark R. Leeper
of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
[Kubrick's] third best.
Reviews of Full Metal Jacket
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
Albert Camus once urged that men be neither victims nor executioners. This film shows how in Viet...
By
Geoff Andrew
of Time Out (7/0)
Kubrick's direction is as steely cold and manipulative as the régime it depicts, and we never rea...
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (7/0)
Although the elements of the story are simple and precise, Kubrick infuses a dreamlike, fatalisti...
By
Rita Kempley
of Washington Post (7/0)
Full Metal Jacket, ice and wildfire, order and chaos, is intellectual war, hard thought.
By
James Rocchi
of Netflix (3/4) No reference
An examination of humans at their worst that's grounded in very specific circumstances but has un...
By
Wesley Lovell
of Oscar Guy (3/4) No reference
Incredibly realistic and immensely enjoyable.
Movie Distributors Production Companies
Natant
Harrier Films Movie Studios
Inc.
Warner Bros. Pictures
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