Full Metal Jacket

Name: Full Metal Jacket
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1987-06-26
Duration: 117 min

In Vietnam, the wind doesn't blow. It sucks.

19871h 57mcritics 8.1/10

Drama War

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.

starring Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey

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Read from 107 comments (74 from Reddit, 29 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 40 of them described how it moves.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 that landed as a blow, 1 that got a real laugh.

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Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit21 read

“the whole ending sequence with the sniper. It was bad enough what she did to Eightball, but it absolutely floored me when she got Cowboy. Then the whole smoke grenade sequence, and that chilling background music/noise as they went building to building to look for her... man, I was sweating bullets.”
I_only_post_here▲ 221about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I loved the first half, in Basic”
ClubMeSoftly▲ 93about 0–50% inread it ↗
“the actual Vietnam half just didn't grab me in the same way.”
ClubMeSoftly▲ 93about 50–100% inread it ↗
“Gets Unrealistic during and after the village rape.”
▲ 51about 75–100% inread it ↗

Metacritic35 read

“The first half of the film is set in boot camp and is amazing”
Cameronius_113about 0–50% inread it ↗
“starting at the 2 minute mark until the 45 minute mark this movie was a masterpiece and it was all because of him, I know it wasn’t supposed to be funny but it is because the **** that comes out of his mouth is crazy”
realjaytheboomabout 3–45% inread it ↗
“after that the film just nose dives in quality big time”
realjaytheboomabout 45–100% inread it ↗
“This is a splendid movie from the get-go”
badshapedabout 0–100% inread it ↗

TMDB4 read

“For the first part we are subjected to the training regime inflicted on wet behind the ears boys, boys soon to become Marines out in the harshness of the Vietnam War. This is real dehumanising stuff, frighteningly essayed by the brilliance of drill instructor R Lee Ermey's performance. We know, see and feel that the boys are primed to be killing machines, unemotional killing machines at that, with Kubrick astutely weaving the brutality of camp into the moral quandary that was the war itself.”
John Chardabout 0–50% inread it ↗
“The first act’s boot camp sequence is probably the most realistic rendition in cinematic history”
Wuchakabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“The second half is better than the first half.”
Ian Bealeabout 50–100% inread it ↗
“The first half of the fiim focuses on the training of raw recruits and features shenanigans we have seen countless times before”
Ian Bealeabout 0–50% inread it ↗

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