Full Metal Jacket

Movie • 1987

8.3

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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.

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Roger Ebert

"Full Metal Jacket" is uncertain where to go, and the movie's climax seems phoned in from earlier war pictures.

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Hollywood Reporter

Unfortunately, the word that Warner Bros. has had trouble inserting into some print ads also applies to this didactic, static harangue.

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Scraps from the loft

Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket establishes its grip on the viewer's attention instantaneously...

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IMDb

It had a very gritty realism and managed to pull the viewer into it very, very well.

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AllMovie

Full Metal Jacket is widely described as a two-act film, the first being a gripping look at Marine basic training and madness, and the second covering more conventional battleground territory.

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Common Sense Media

Parents need to know that Full Metal Jacket is unsparing in its portrayal of wartime violence.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Full Metal Jacket is violent, caustic, ironic, and cold, an amoral object formed from a camera gliding majestically across slow-motion carnage.

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