Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. [Warner Bros.]
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Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Written By: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Ed O'Ross, John Terry, Kevyn Major Howard, Peter Edmund
Country: USA
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doctor7 | 92 95% |
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Brilliant from start to finish. Some say that only the boot camp section is great but I disagree entirely. The movie certainly does shift at that point suddenly but it perfectly shows the change between boot camp and war. Outstanding film.
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ewp805 | 100 99% |
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A personal favorite, Full Metal Jacket consists of a spectacular first half that transitions into almost a completely different, yet equally gripping film. Ermey's performance is absolutely stellar, and Kubrick's directing really shines. Dehumanization at its best, er... worst.
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aney | 81 88% |
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The first part of the film is absolutely BRILLIANT... the story, the acting, the directing is amazing. However the movie lost me at the second part. It got a lot weaker as it progressed. The directing is still amazing, but the story isn't that interesting. But the first half more than makes up for the second.
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Alex Watkins | 4 70% |
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Equates sex and death - those two favorite concerns of the adolescent male - like few films I've seen outside of Cronenberg's ouevre. And yet the Marines' testosterone-fueled rage is ultimately rendered hollow in the face of wartime horrors, as their transformation from empathetic human beings into remorseless killing machines is completed. Like so many other Kubrick films, unjustly chastized - but unlike most, its critical reevaluation is yet to come.
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Farzan | 90 89% |
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Full Metal Jacket is great. The first half of this film is absolutely amazing. R. Lee Ermey was fantastic as drill Sgt. Hartman. But eventually, the movie starts to take a turn for the worse, but thats not a bad thing at all. Kubrick still shines in his direction, but its as if a completely new movie came into the picture. Full Metal Jacket perfectly executes how brutal war is, even before your sent off to battle. This film is packed with extremely memorable scenes, most being with Ermey. Great.
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frederic_g54 | 10 97% |
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The futility of war has never looked better, a reason why I liked its heavily criticized second part. Recommended !!!
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billkerwin | 93 91% |
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A harrowing film about boot camp and Vietnam. Bootcamp is scarier.
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Leonardis | 96 91% |
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Pretty awesome movie. A war movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. I cannot really complain! The story was really good but the little bit about Private Pyle and that boot camp was the more interesting part of the film. Still, the characters are all good and well-acted and the directing and music score are all great. If you haven't seen this yet you need to.
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MartinTeller | 71 38% |
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Like most people, I consider the first part to be the best. The dehumanizing rigors of drilling, the transformation of Pyle, and all those colorful lines that explode out of Ermey's mouth. By contrast, the dialogue in the rest of the movie is horribly clichéd and poorly delivered. The middle section is an unfocused hodge-podge of "Vietnam stuff". Some of it is interesting, but for the most part it seems to belong to a lesser film. Only at the sniper episode does the film regain its legs.
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Okkervil | 92 98% |
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Kubrick's talents knew no limits! Full Metal Jacket is about as good a war film as ever made. A film of two seperate halves, with each half in its own way as brutal and as savage as the other, as Kubrick gives us a shocking account of the horrors of war. The script is one of the finest in movie history, the performances are top notch and as always Kubrick's work behind the camera near flawless.
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BillyShears | 85 86% |
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"Well, sure Vietnam was fun. But not like goin-to-the-circus fun, or fly-fishin-in-Montana fun. No, Vietnam was more like shovin' shards of broken glass up your ass and then sittin' in a tub of Tabasco sauce fun."
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gtown1479 | 84 81% |
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Interesting how this movie had two halves. I liked the first half more, with Gomer Pyle(sp?). The way that half ended caught me off guard and really made the rest of the film tough to match. Modine's character had some good lines in the 2nd part as he struggled to figure out what was the right side to be on. Scenes like Christmas day tried to show me how different life is in boot camp or at war. Also finally found out where 2 Live Crew took that hook from.
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Jeb | 100 98% |
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Amazing first half backed up by a superb second half. Full of iconic scenes and incredible acting!
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Rufam | 95 99% |
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"Full Metal Jacket" is Stanley Kubrick's best film and the best war movie ever made. The first part is funnier than "Dr. Strangelove", while the second is more shocking than fifty hours of "Saving Private Ryan". Amazing soundtrack, terrific direction and fantastic performances, particularly from Ermey and D'Onofrio add up to a mind-blowing result, a film that can have you laugh with your heart and pick up your jaw from the floor at the same time.
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Derekstar | 90 85% |
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On my most recent re-watch I noticed two new things. First, I noticed some compassion coming from Drill Sergeant Hartman. Previously I had just seen him as breaking balls, but now I see that he was really trying to help Pyle, and was actually proud that he finally made a soldier out of him. Second, I noticed the symbolic regression of Pyle into childhood. Sucking his thumb, crying in bed, needing help lacing his shoes, needing help getting dressed. Food for thought.
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Ytadel | 7 83% |
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R. Lee Ermey makes the first half of the movie the most intense, funny, scary, entertaining extended war training montage in cinematic history, and I love it. The latter half is a big step down, but still a good war movie. The problem is that Kubrick's cold, perfectionist style fails to really capture the intensity of war, but on the other hand - Adam Baldwin!
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tearsofash | 85 78% |
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A really good film. The first have was the best, and the second half was almost a different movie. It's a little different than any other war movie I've seen.
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Nathan S | 4 74% |
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Its politics are less pointed than in Kubrick's previous anti-war efforts, and instead Full Metal Jacket exists in philosophical spheres: a Venn diagram of the man and the machine, the self and the shadow, and indeed the first half and the second, between which there is no large gap of quality, and each of which would cease to meaningfully function without the other. It is interesting to watch, then, how Kubrick shoots this psychological miasma with aesthetic clarity and precision.
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sdr782 | 85 60% |
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Good movie even though R. Lee Ermey makes the first half far better than the second half.
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Hawkins | 89 88% |
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Normally it would be alarming that the boot camp half feels heavier than the war half, but Lee Ermey really was that guy. Military cadences have never been more obnoxious. Its interesting how Joker internalizes the suicide and never speaks of it during the entire second act. I think it's a bit too on the nose that the peace sign/born to kill helmet gets called out and explained, but I know folks who think the movie is just about how badass the marines are so go figure. The duality of moviegoers.
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SirStuckey | 75 67% |
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Feels like two movies. The first half is about boot camp for a squadron of Marines and has some pretty intense and gritty moments. It also holds what is considered the gold standard for drill sergeant roles by R. Lee Ermey. The second half follows the character Joker during the Vietnam War. While it has some great parts as well it never seems to match the energy the first half brought, which is a shame.
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TheEscapist | 67 37% |
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Not great, but some memorable scenes and a fairly interesting style. There are better war films out there and this one feels a bit empty but it does enough things differently to have its own identity.
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| 2 | swizardofoz | 70 64% |
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boot camp is brilliant, but the actual vietnam scenes inevitably feel like a poor man's Apocalypse Now, which completely dominates this film in its depiction of the psychological breakdown within the jungle. the criticism of the second half is justified; much of the so-called "intense" scenes just seemed to drag on, and i didn't much care for joker as a protagonist.
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| 2 | Puck | 95 96% |
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Quite possibly the ultimate Vietnam movie in two acts. Amazing acting provided by a very heavy Vincent D'Onofrio as "Gomer Pyle" and the rest of the cast are combined with viscereal visuals and mood. Incredible.
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| 2 | runforrest | 90 89% |
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Would be given a full 100 if the second half of the film wasn't as outstanding as the first. But I bet I'd still like it if the second half was entirely made up of them fucking the Asian prostitute, that's how much I love the first part. Great film.
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feublo | 85 73% |
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Although the first half tends to be the most memorable, FMJ sits through as an intense, funny, and dark depiction of war. The dehumanization of these recruits is far from cheesy, and becomes powerful when it needs to be. Kubrick is a master at showcasing his brilliance and uses a very stylistic score. Wouldn't mind revisiting this down the road at all.
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bing | 80 77% |
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I don't quite follow the first/second half debate. The themes are clear throughout, and the opening act serves to reinforce what we see later. [SPOILERS] They're halves of a whole- all that drilling and exercise and punishment just so they can fumble around in a pile of rocks getting killed by a little girl? If you were bored because there were fewer dick jokes and n-words in the second half then you missed the disgusting, despairing satire of the thing.
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Dorkovsky | 7 83% |
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A hard film to rate. The boot camp stuff is pretty much brilliant, but the second half is so different that it feels unstructured, which is strange for Kubrick.
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omgfridge | 9 92% |
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The change of well movie half way through is great.
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Stain | 100 95% |
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Alternatively funny and horrifying war story. A real film, done the way only Kubrick did them
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purgatos | 78 68% |
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This is a strange film, parts of it are great, parts of it seem to totally miss the mark. The first half is certainly stronger than the second, but the second still is still decent enough.
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Grit | 75 81% |
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Full Metal Jacket is a film of two excellent halves, iconic scenes and great performances. Personally I think the first half is by far the most intelligently developed and hard-hitting, although Kubrick does an equally great job at directing the second half it just somehow feels a little shallow and empty at points. However what the movie does sport is a catalogue of memorable quotes, fantastic characters and the portrayal of the equally brutal mental battles raging within the training grounds.
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| 2 | lifeandall | 85 76% |
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Worth a good rating for the first half alone. After that, I usually turn it off.
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eCitizen | 80 83% |
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The boot camp first half dragged on too long, but ended with a bang. The middle goes nowhere. The last half has some war action and picks up considerably. Most of the acting felt genuine, and there was some mildly gritty material. I was left wondering what the point was. If they are saying war is hell, then they missed a lot of opportunities to say that better. Good music. Technically it is very well made, but the story feels incomplete and unfinished.
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PeaceAnarchy | 97 99% |
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A superb war film and both halves would be nothing without the other. The first half, the training, is often viewed as the best part because it has more memorable characters and a better story, but it'd be nothing if there weren't a second part to put that training in context of a brutal confusing war.
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BattleToad | 93 94% |
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Full Metal Jacket is sort of like two very intense war films taped together. The acting is great, especially of course, if it counts as acting for R. Lee Ermey, who was really just doing a job he was already good at. The fury is real. The feel of the film is both scary and awe inspiring. It's brilliant film making by Stanley Kubrick. Awesome!
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lrampartl | 88 89% |
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The first half is just frigging fantastic. The second half is just another war movie.
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JordanDcFc | 90 95% |
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A brilliant war movie. The score and soundtrack was amazing, the use of humourus songs against the backdrop of the destructive and horrifying scenes was a masterstroke. A tense, funny, frightening second half is almost a complete contrast to the first half. The dialogue is the first half is better than most comedies these days. Some amazing scenery in the second half. I can't give this a higher score because I think it lacks any real emotional punch, which would have lifted it to near perfect.
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lauratron | 85 83% |
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Good, but I felt it was rather overrated. Like what's been said by others, the first half is great, the second is somewhat forgettable.
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TripleSH | 97 99% |
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R. Lee Ermey is a god among men in this movie. Kubrick delivers a grand slam with this pull-no-punches look at Marine life in the time of the Vietnam war. Great characters, great dialogue, great story. Very few movies top this in terms of excellence.
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ozymandius10 | 82 81% |
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My score is for the FIRST HALF of the movie alone. I hated the second half, and thought it was boring as a bastard. The first half (essentially the boot camp) was amazing, and R. Lee Ermey earned an Oscar by just being himself.
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PetrosTser | 80 86% |
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The first forty-five minutes of Kubrick's penultimate film are simply terrific. But as the middle act commences, everything just seems to be falling apart. The film itself is only saved by the very suspenseful final scenes. Overall, it is a well-directed if uneven effort that can both make you laugh and cringe, that is quite promising at first but won't pay off until the end and that set the template for pretty much every war film that followed.
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fudgieb | 95 89% |
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Awesome. Probably the best Nam movie ever made.
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Obidy | 8 47% |
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Full Metal Jacket is surprisingly disjointed for a Kubrick movie. Although he's a renowned perfectionist, Full Metal Jacket is essentially a collection of vignettes about Vietnam, and their quality is somewhat inconsistent. The movie's first half, focusing on boot camp, is pretty much outstanding. Once the movie leaves training, however, it wanders, as did my attention in the second half. Interesting but not Kubrick's best.
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Kubrick Jr. | 100 89% |
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Considered in my opinion one of the best war films ever. I love the 2 parts of the film showing Basic training and the war in Vietnam. The characters develop very well for seeing the majority of the cast that made it into Vietnam part. Joker is the most developing and I love the sergeant. Very well written, cinematography and overall just a great action film with one of the best storylines and elements. Great film, a masterpiece, and personally Kubrick's best.
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rewind | 7 75% |
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"All they fucking do is walk around in the second half of this movie." - My review of the movie when I was 14
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GordonBombay | 85 74% |
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"This is my rifle this is my gun, this film is great, however not fun!"
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Noblet | 79 67% |
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The second half isn't terrible, but it's just not as good as the boot camp parts. Still a great movie either way.
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overrated | 91 97% |
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I feel like such a freak for thinking the second half's just as good, if not a little better.
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DavidBlast | 80 80% |
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A first half so iconic that the last half was always bound to suffer. And so it does.
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hellboy76 | 97 99% |
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Devastatingly brilliant first half more than saves a pedestrian second half. The transition between the two is still one of the most shocking and grim moments in movie history. R. Lee Ermey is still cashing in on the genius performance he brought.
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thiagolooney | 70 38% |
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First half is awesome. Second half is... meh
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Elysian Air | 66 27% |
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Not as cohesive as the rest of Kubrick's oeuvre and definitely his weakest film. It's not a terrible film by any means, but it's overshadowed by superior war films of the era. It has the usual Kubrickian charm that makes it worthwhile to watch and Private Joker gives the bifurcated structure more stability than it would have otherwise.
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| 1 | brandons | 95 98% |
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A hardy Kubrikian effort that warms on you with repeated viewings, that is, if you love Kubrick long time.
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| 1 | law | 65 72% |
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Stanley Kubrick has a reputation for painstaking meticulousness, so I was quite surprised to spot several technical fumbles in the movie--and I'm not even observant when it comes to these things. Although the subject matter is affecting, it's conveyed in a flat, one-note manner. The crazy acting by Vincent D'Onofrio is unconvincing. R. Lee Erney's lines are good but too often other actors' dialogue plays as stilted. Full Metal Jacket is good but unquestionably could have been better executed.
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| 1 | Zoran | 81 74% |
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Intense, but the first half :(
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| 1 | Zipster | 85 68% |
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Despite its unevenness and dry theatrics, there's still something to be said about the hauntingly memorable story of a microcosm of forgotten pain in the time and place that's almost memorialized by even the most brutally real Vietnam films. Pyle is somebody we'll always remember. And the fact that the movie moves on with Joker, never to mention Pyle again, is to still highlight and commemorate Pyle as the murmuring heart of Full Metal Jacket.
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rttntomatoes | 94 85% |
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Intense, tightly constructed, and darkly comic at times, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket may not boast the most original of themes, but it is exceedingly effective at communicating them.
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NBD Rab | 85 81% |
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Probably should have been two different films. Still, both halves work fantastically. Doesn't stand up to "the horror..." of Apocalypse Now, but it's a 'nam film everyone should experience.
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Ag0stoMesmer | 5 98% |
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Sgt. Hartman has to be one of the most memorable characters in cinema, a bathroom scene that'll burn into your brain and a scenic action movie too, brilliant.
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lex | 95 91% |
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Like all later Kubrick films, it's a one of a kind experience every bit as powerfully filmed as it is intellectually challenging. The first act produces some of the most interesting moments in any movie and I thought the rest of the film, though not as initially striking (yet what can be) was extremely well thought out.
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Gnalkhere | 90 90% |
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PEople say you'll like the first half, but honestly I like both halves.
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dmarques | 89 89% |
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The first part of the movie (boot camp scenes) is an incredible and accurate view on the dehumanization of young people. Sadly, Matthew Modine can't really carry the second half of the movie, like Vincent D'Onofrio does to the first. Animal Mother, is, ironically, the most likable character on the second part.
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Hofschneider | 93 96% |
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Yes, the second half is a masterpiece as well.
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fuzzleshnops | 80 61% |
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The first part is great. The second part was decent but not outstanding.
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basasdura | 75 62% |
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Brilliant first half of the film and somewhat bland second half.
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guy piranha | 95 99% |
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this anti-war gem is somehow different from every other there is. by the time it actually depicts the terror of war itself, it's almost over. and yet it holds its own as a gripping tale of how people need to abandon many aspects of their humanity to the experience of kill or be killed. it never overstates, there are no prosaic martyrs, just messed up people trying to get through somehow. it's exactly how i imagine war and its preambles from a soldiers point of view.
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| 1 | davisty69 | 85 66% |
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I would rate it higher if it didn't have the second half of it. It should end after the drill sergeant gets shot.
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| 1 | PieterVW | 84 82% |
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Great portrait of the brainwashing at the bootcamp. After that the pace drops a little too much, which makes it lose some points. However the sarcastic dialogues and soliloquys are at times truly brillliant and the last few minutes sent shivers down my spine. The last song really summarises it all, war is a strange strange thing!
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| 1 | TnMovieFan2 | 95 86% |
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My 2nd favorite war film of all time and another Kubrick masterpiece. 1st half is one of the best cinema moments of all time. However, 2nd half is only slightly above average and brings it down slightly from being another Kubrick masterpiece, but still wonderful nevertheless
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Insan3 | 78 60% |
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A fantastic performance R. Lee Ermey, but not much else to this movie in my opinion.
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kitchen867 | 5 6% |
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Haunting film. The conclusions to both the first and third acts are truly harrowing. Wonderful original music composed by Vivian Kubrick.
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NewtonFig | 76 31% |
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Less a movie and more a set piece for catchphrases.
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| 1 | Launch | 83 77% |
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The first half is absolutely fantastic, the second half however is more reminiscent of Apocalypse Now/Platoon
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| 1 | ikeboywonder | 50 65% |
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another one where if you haven't seen this you shouldn't be reading this
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| 1 | Bene | 78 70% |
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Brilliant first half, highly flawed second one.
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| 1 | patabongo | 85 75% |
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I've never seen the second half, and I never intend to. But the first half of this movie is well-nigh perfect.
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Anomaly | 84 83% |
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It's not really that the second half is inferior to the first, it's that the first and third acts (with R. Lee Ermey and the sniper, respectively) are superior to the second act, which is not as entertaining or gripping. Not as consistent as Kubrick's other films, but entertaining in spite of its flaws.
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| 1 | Skenkere | 76 75% |
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First half was great, second half was mainly forgettable.
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| 1 | drnorton | 95 95% |
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A classic - one of the truly epic war movies.
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Redeyedtiss | 82 71% |
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The beginning is the best.
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007Tuxedo | 73 72% |
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Amazing beginning that the last half just can't keep up with.
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TheDiceman | 80 95% |
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Brilliant.
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KasperL | 75 77% |
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The first half is pure classic. I'd give that a 90 and the rest a 60. So there we go: 75 it is. Watch everything up until they leave for Vietnam over and over and maybe just skip the rest.
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Pickpocket | 9 93% |
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I actually like the second half just as much.
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| 1 | Serak | 77 58% |
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85 for the first half, 70 for the second.
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bojanpopic | 98 97% |
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One of the greatest movie about war I ever seen!
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Obso1337me | 85 70% |
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Amazing first part, but the movie lags afterwards.
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| 1 | istayaway | 85 65% |
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Great first half, second half is good, too, but in comparison to the first half seems week.
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KJNRG | 78 18% |
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I only really liked the first "half" of this movie.
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fabfunk | 92 91% |
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Moody, introspective war picture, cynical and darkly humorous in all the right places.
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darkman | 74 61% |
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Feels like two different movies combined. The first one is the better one.
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| 1 | Chompa | 81 62% |
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Great start, but loses something along the way.
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freqflyer | 100 99% |
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One of my favourite war movies of all time.
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begoniabol | 90 95% |
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Holy shit sergeant Hartman is awful/incredible/insane/amazing. Also the ending of the first half is fantastic. Second half wasn't quite as good as the first, but the ending again of the second half is really great. Very Kubricky, good shots
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| 1 | jimbo | 90 78% |
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First section is amazing - second section drags. But nonetheless, a classic of the medium.
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brandt64 | 75 55% |
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The drill instructor played by R. Lee Ermey never fails to amuse, and this is important because the first half of the film relies solely on his dialog to stay afloat. I would've preferred a little more substance. The second half fails to do anything real amazing at all, but is still a passable war story. Overall I feel that this film is overrated but it is still a respectable Kubrick film that fans of war movies will enjoy.
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lawrence | 100 96% |
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Pile's suicide is one of the most memorable scenes in cinema.
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suman.austin | 88 90% |
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Full Metal Jacket is another excellent film by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick can create such an atmosphere in his movies that you forget what is right and what is wrong. The first half was amazing with some memorable scenes, but in the next half the story shifts towards the humanitarian aspect and how brutal war really is.
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naikou | 70 77% |
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Yeah, the latter portion of the movie is radically different than the first part, but isn't that the point? Boot camp vs the reality of war?
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Ocelot | 70 73% |
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The first half is great. The second half... not so much.
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| 1 | oliveplume | 100 0% |
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The first half is the best. The second half is also the best.
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tbollow89 | 90 78% |
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such a good movie! it starts off kinda funny, in boot camp. but once private pyle shoots the DI it becomes a serious movie. and has some very intense moments. i just love stanley kubrick
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hellsditch | 81 68% |
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Great first half, goes a little downhill in the second half. Joker isn't interesting or developed enough to base the entire 2nd half on. R. Lee Ermy was also a hard act to follow before he became completely over-exposed and started playing the same character in every movie. The first half, and Private Pyle, is where it's at.
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Optimus_mike | 85 80% |
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ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-BIRD IS THE WORD!
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Langelund (CinemaZone.dk) | 90 93% |
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Doesn't matter that the second half doesn't quite live up to the first when the initial 35 drill-instructing minutes is THAT outstanding.
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AshWilliams | 75 47% |
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This movie's first act is so terrific you could swear it will be a perfect movie. Alas, the rest of it has trouble finding its plot or even message. Plenty of great scenes follow but you miss the clockwork precision of the beginning.
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tathiel | 89 93% |
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Kubrick had a talent for stirring up the audience, this movie is definitely another proof for that. Yet, whatever topic he worked on, his movies were never mediocre. They are all made with such an intensity and precision that they may be not the easiest to watch but all the more worth it.
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jswinder | 93 97% |
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"GET OFF MY OB-STACLE! GET. THE. FUCK. OFF OF MY OB-STACLE!!!"
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TheRealJ-Ro | 95 97% |
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I would argue that this is the most relevant film, from a sociological standpoint, that Kubrick has made. It very effectively showed the mental effects of war on soldiers in such a way that puts it on-par with (or above) movies like 'Platoon'. 'Jacket' is endlessly quotable, topped with classic Kubrick icing. Whether through an academic or purely-pleasurable lens, 'Jacket' delivers a unique, moving viewing experience. It is nothing short of required viewing for any movie fan.
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Wiche | 90 95% |
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One of the best war-dramas I've seen. The acting was just brilliant. The emotions are true and you believe everything right away just as it should be in movies.
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recklessmess | 93 99% |
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Private Pyle actually survived the suicide attempt to become a member of the NYPD's Criminal Intent investigative group.
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Barnowl | 94 69% |
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Everyone should see it at least once.
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