Full Metal Jacket

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 56m
  • 78

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Producer:

Jan Harlan, Michael Herr, Philip Hobbs

Release Date:

Jul 10, 1987

Runtime:

1hr 56m

Synopsis

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Cast

  • Matthew Modine
  • Adam Baldwin
  • Vincent D'Onofrio
  • R. Lee Ermey
  • Dorian Harewood
  • Arliss Howard
  • Kevyn Major Howard
  • Ed O'Ross

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Metacritic

78
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Based on 19 Critics
7.4

USER SCORE (601)

Generally favorable reviews based on 601 Reviews
100

Elliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes...and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since Dr. Strangelove, as well as the most horrific; the first section alone accomplishes most of what The Shining failed to do.

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Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
100

As brutally unsparing as Platoon was, it was ultimately warm and embracing. Kubrick's film is about as embracing as a full-metal-jacketed bullet in the gut. [29 June 1987]

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Metacritic review by Jack Kroll
Jack Kroll
Newsweek
100

Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination.

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Metacritic review by Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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