Jacket Potato!

''The deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifle. It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead marines and then you will be in a world of shit because marines are not allowed to die without permission. Do you maggots understand?''


Story follows a group of Marine recruits from the harrowing experience of boot camp to the horrifying battlefronts of Vietnam.

Matthew Modine: Pvt. Joker

Adam Baldwin: Animal Mother

I was not expecting Full Metal Jacket to live up to expectations but thankfully i was wrong. Stanley Kubrick generally does some weird films and as soon as it begins you know your in for a treat.

This isn't just a war film, it's a study of people being transformed, moulded into reliable killing machines. The boot camp scenes are brilliant and R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman is iconic. I just couldn't muster myself to stop laughing at the beginning.
Private Pyle played by Vincent D'Onofrio is fascinating as a man who depicts what happens when your pushed to far and how it can make your whole being snap if you let it. The resulting conclusion of boot camp in a toilet left me blown away at how far it went.

Vietnam and it's war is shown up in a scene where we see a soldier shooting anyone from a helicopter, adeptly saying if they run there Vietcong if they don't, there a persistent Vietcong. It's sick but it so funny in a black humoured way. Shows the whole fucked up state of the dirty War on both sides.

The music is effective, definitely reminded me of 2001 and Clockwork Orange. I loved the songs like these boots were made for walking and the song on the credits what a finish.
Haunting droning haunting music used in the scenes at night at the boot-camp were chilling to me and the final scene.

The shock when you find soldiers you cared about shockingly die. Its tear inducing, and the identity of the sniper when they find the culprit near the end, that was heartbreaking.

Full Metal Jacket is another classic like The Deer Hunter that not only focuses on war but also on the people fighting it.

''Seven-six-two millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket.''

Pending Full Review and Re-writes...

8/10