Full Metal Jacket
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Universal acclaim- based on 133 Ratings
- Starring: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
- Summary: 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.]
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, War
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Negative: 3 out of 18
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100May be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour.
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100What makes the film stunning is less its metaphorical scheme than its cinematic style. Always a matter of flowing camera movement, Kubrick has photographed much of the action with long "traveling shots" that capture time and space as a seamless whole, not fractured into the bits and pieces of standard editing techniques. [26 June 1987]
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80A perversely fascinating movie--one that answers no questions, offers no hope and has little meaning. In a way this is perfect for what the film has to say about war, but you find yourself numbed and apathetic as the film progresses.
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30By most standards of conventional film narrative, this movie is a mess. [25 June, 1987, p.22(E)]
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Positive: 34 out of 34
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Mixed: 0 out of 34
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