Full Metal Jacket

From begining to end this movie was excellent. It shows the hard, dreadfull training they go through and how it can mentally mess you up. personally i would give the movie 5 stars.

How is this guy a certified critic for Rotten Tomatoes? This isn't even a review, its just a tiny summary of the movie. And this website couldn't even pass off as semi-professional.

This movie has one of the rarest portrayal of real psychology of soldiers and because of that I appreciate it especially after those purified war movies like "Saving private Ryan" and "Band of brothers" which tend to portray soldiers as innocent lost boys.

This review is just trying to be different. The movie is precise and flawless. There is a reason the lines of the drill Sargent stick with you forever, the reason is excellence and this movie is filled with it. Watch it.

See this masterpiece, if you haven’t. This review is an insult to the memory of a great artist. You can parse Vietnam any way you like, and certainly Kubrick pushes many horror-of-the-Vietnam-war buttons, but his vision is clearly universal. The first part of the film is really about the uses of language and various disciplines to harness and control the powers of young men to do the biddings of Power. You see that the gibberish of drill sergeants is purposeful and effective. It’s all coolly detached ― until it isn’t. The second part is a voyage into fire and death. Kubrick seems to suggest that the voyage is half-feared/half-welcomed, though his vision is somewhat ironic. But how else can you frame the stupidities of Power when on the ground it pointlessly snuffs out the lives of half-comprehending people? It’s as if Kubrick ennobles the soldiers through his peerless technique. As for characterization, the characters are fully human and each interesting in different ways. The Joker is a young untried man, boxed in by things he knows are dubious at best. What does he really know? What can he really do? Hold onto his sense of self and march into the conflagration with his buddies. Modine is perfect as the Joker. His smile, a haunting ‘no’ to the craziness that is engulfing him…

I think it's a cop-out to have given the film such a low rating when the director's intentions were clearly to have in force some of the very things you claim detracts from it (racist bigotry, killing of innocents, dehumanization). That is the nature of war. There's no use in sugar-coating something that is rightfully, as you claim, "steely cold."

I've said it before, I'll say it again. This website obviously dose not watch the films it's reviewing. Every film of any significance has been given a bad review.

This reviewer has got it all wrong, because you get to know the main character, and care about him. And to say this, what a pathetic r"eview". Stop making reviews. Just... stop.

What a joke of a review, for a joke of a website.