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Actors:	Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood
Format:	AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Director:	Stanley Kubrick
Release Date:	2006-09-05
Aspect Ratio:	1.78:1
Audience Rating:	R (Restricted)
Category:	Blu-ray
Label/Manufacturer:	Warner Home Video
UPC:	012569828414

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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh

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Rated

on 2010-07-25

Clearly captures the essence of "its all good fun until some one gets hurt" then it becomes real. Wkae up call to all who didnt go there.

Rated

on 2010-06-19

When this film came out, many Viet Nam films were being made, at the time. So, this film, took a different spin, on the material. Viet Nam was merely the backdrop, for this film, which focuses more upon, a few of the characters. As they experience, basic training, and eventually, some action in Viet Nam. A well made psychological War film, done only the way Kubrick can.

Rated

on 2010-06-08

Full Metal Jacket is an outstanding portait of soldiers before and during the VietNam War. The first half of the film is so great that it seems to overshadow the rest of the film. But I feel the second half is just as compelling. Kubrick's direction reflects early films such as Paths of Glory and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Like all of Kubrick's films, there are images that you will see that seem to linger in your mind long after the film is over.

Rated

on 2010-05-26

The movie came as amazon said it would.... I order quite a bit from amazon, and they have been great !!!! NO COMPLAINTS

Rated

on 2010-05-21

5 star rating. Best war movie ever!!!!! Blu-ray was excellent. AV and PQ were 5 Star.

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