Full Metal Jacket R

Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 15, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1987
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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[A] chilling, darkly funny, brutal and unforgettable masterpiece.
Chicago Sun-Times
May 22, 2020
Full Metal Jacket seems further proof that Kubrick is still trapped in self-pleasing cinematic exercise. Full Review
The New Republic
Nov 6, 2017
Rating: 1-5 -- One of the classics of war cinema, it's not nearly as good as its legend suggests. But it's pretty good. Full Review
About.com
Oct 25, 2015
...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid...
New York Times
Jun 26, 1987
We look to the director for some judgment, or even an indication of his opinion, as to whether his carnage artists are born or made; but we don't get it. Full Review
The Spectator
Apr 9, 2019
Rating: 2.5/4 -- An electrifying opening segment that could stand alone as one of Kubrick's great films, except it's only about 45 minutes long. Full Review
Gannett News Service
Feb 9, 2019
[Kubrick's] genius, and perhaps burden, is to see the insanity in us all and to make it seem so terrifyingly normal.
People Magazine
Jun 24, 2015

Product Description:

In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the Cold War), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET (1987), adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT TIMERS, is broken down into two very different parts. The first half of the film focuses on the training of a squad of Marine grunts on Parris Island, and more specifically on the troubled relationship between the brutal drill sergeant (a frightening Lee Ermey) and an oafish misfit (a brilliant Vincent D'Onofrio) who just happens to be a sharpshooter. The second half takes the grunts to Hue City, where the climactic battle of the 1968 Tet Offensive--and the turning point of the Vietnam War--took place. The story is told through the eyes of Private Joker (Matthew Modine), a cynical aspiring photojournalist who is forced to fight for his life and the lives of his fellow recruits.

Unusually for Kubrick, FULL METAL JACKET emerged at a time when a trend for films about Vietnam was in full swing. PLATOON had proceeded Kubrick's film by a year, and lesser efforts such as HAMBURGER HILL also emerged in 1987. London's abandoned docklands may not be the most obvious choice of location to replicate the ravages of the Vietnam landscape, but this is where Kubrick shot the film, sticking to his dogged principles of not shooting outside his adopted home. A moving commentary on the dehumanizing process that occurs when soldiers prepare and engage in battle, FULL METAL JACKET is an unforgettable experience from one of the most original voices to ever pick up a movie camera.

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