Full Metal Jacket

1987

1h 57m

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8.1/10

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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Directors

Stanley Kubrick

Writers

Michael Herr(screenplay by)

Gustav Hasford(screenplay by)

Stanley Kubrick(screenplay by)

Stars

Matthew Modine

Adam Baldwin

Vincent D'Onofrio

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Eightball

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Lt. Touchdown

Lt. Lockhart

Crazy Earl

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Doorgunner

Doc Jay

Poge Colonel

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T.H.E. Rock

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Directors

Stanley Kubrick

Writers

Michael Herr(screenplay by)

Gustav Hasford(screenplay by)

Stanley Kubrick(screenplay by)

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**The second half is better than the first half.** A film of two halves. The first half of the fiim focuses on the training of raw recruits and features shenanigans we have seen countless times before - think _Stripes_ and _Police Academy_. The persecution of the fat guy - a scenario we had already witnessed in Stripes and Police Academy ( "_I could show a movie on your butt, fatso_!"- Lt Harris, Police Academy) is here played out to maximum effect. The fat guy who freezes atop a climbing frame is the central plot here with Matthew Modine's character playing second fiddle to all of the _Leslie Barbara_ stuff. The second half of the movie at least gives us something we were not expecting when a sniper's identity is revealed. - Ian Beale

IanBeale15 Feb, 2017