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Full Metal Jacket

1987

Stanley Kubrick

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

8.2

123,697

War. Drama A group of recruits trains in Parris Island. Sergeant Hartman, relentless and brutal, has the mission to train them until they become tough enough to fight the enemy. But not all of them are really prepared for that.

	Author	Review
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"It's a great piece of filmmaking, diminished only by a second act that fails to live up to the first act"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"[A] strangely shapeless film from (...) After what has already been said about "Vietnam" in the movies, 'Full Metal Jacket' is too little and too late (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric"	POS
United Kingdom	John Patterson The Guardian	"Tightly schematised and coherent (...) An astonishingly assured piece of film-making"	POS
United States	Arthur Ryel-Lindsey Slant	"One of Kubrick’s grittiest works, is also one of his most resonant (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"There's a major star in 'Full Metal Jacket': Stanley Kubrick's direction."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"The film is both powerful and frustratingly unengaged (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Variety	"An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama (...) Script is loaded with vivid, outrageously vulgar military vernacular that contributes heavily to the film’s power."	POS

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