Jarhead
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 169 Ratings
- Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black
- Summary: Laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd, Jarhead is the film adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War. (Universal)
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, War
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Positive: 20 out of 40
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Mixed: 18 out of 40
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Negative: 2 out of 40
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91The sum of the movie is devastating. One takes out of it a sense that the human cost of our endless adventure in Iraq is going to be incalculable, perhaps catastrophic -- a psychological time bomb that will be exploding for decades to come.
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80The daring achievement of Jarhead is that it is not a film about war, about combat: it is about being a soldier.
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60Jarhead refuses to engage in its own point of view toward events it depicts. So the film feels empty and tentative, uncertain of what if anything these events add up to.
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Marines did not play football in full anti-chemical suits in 112-degree weather; men would have been collapsing and perhaps dying because it was so hard to breathe in the gas masks. Do I quibble over details? Details are all the movie offers. There isn't a story.
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Positive: 69 out of 94
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Mixed: 4 out of 94
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Negative: 21 out of 94
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ClarisseP.10A wonderful, funny, exciting movie ! We don't see movies against war nowadays and this one is brillant!
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