Full Metal Jacket (DVD)

It hit the big screen in 1987 with another classic. Like Kubricks other works the Oscar nominated Full Metal Jacket is based upon a novel which goes someway to add to the quality storyline. The Film follows several likeable characters all acted soundly; as they are transformed from everyday citizens into killing machines ripe for the Vietnam War. Set in 1968 the film will keep the anoraks happy, the majority of the sets, scenes, practices and equipment is accurate. Unlike other war movies this film really does scroll the emotions, everything from humour (during the drill sereant scenes) to the tragic war scenes later on. The film introduces a typical ...  Read the complete review

Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam War film 'Full Metal Jacket' is an absolute tour de force. The film is split into two halves following the progress of an intellectual raw recruit known as 'Joker' (Matthew Modine) who finds himself first at a US army training camp and then finds himself shipped out and fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. The first half of the film sees the recruits getting stripped of their psychological make-up and turned instead into unquestioning killers, whilst central protagonist 'Joker' narrates his experiences in first-person. There is evident from the off a dark and coarse humour evidenced by all involved, and both halves of the film ...  Read the complete review

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick does the Vietnam war - from hell in the barracks to hell on the battlefield Full Metal Jacket shows Vietnam from a different perspective, no longer are the soldiers and officers heroes and honorable. Many officers even fact have an air of ludacris about them - especially the hooker officers - and the Marines are know as kids who are unaware of what or where they are. The sometimes rediculous nature of this film can be found in many of its famous scenes; the marines naming their rifles, the meeting with drill sergeant, shaving the marines heads or my personal favourite, the speach about marine marksman that Lee Ermey's character tells ...  Read the complete review

It is safe to say that this film is really two films in one. The first part (roughly 45 minutes) shows a group of new Marine corps recruits going through basic training with drill-instructor-from-Hell Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey, who was a drill instructor in real life too and served 14 months in Vietnam), who are being made into full-blown marines to serve in the Vietnam War. Private James T. "Joker" Davis (Matthew Modine) serves as the focal point for the majority of the film. He's made mentor of Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence, an overweight, rather dimwitted recruit who is picked on by Hartman almost immediately for his ...  Read the complete review

Based on a novel by Gustav Hasford Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick Michael Herr Gustav Hasford Produced by Stanley Kubrick Directed by Stanley Kubrick Cast List: Matthew Modine Private Joker Arliss Howard Private Cowboy Adam Baldwin Animal Mother Vincent D'Onofrio Leonard Lawrence / Private Gomer Pyle Lee Ermey Gunnery Sgt. Hartman Dorian Harewood Eightball Kevyn Major Howard Rafterman Ed O'Ross Walter J. Schinoski / Lt. Touchdown Jon Stafford Doc Jay John Terry Lt. Lockhart Kirk Taylor Payback ...  Read the complete review