Full Metal Jacket

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 56m
  • 78

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Writer:

Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford

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
  • Kevyn Major Howard
  • Arliss Howard
  • Ed O'Ross
  • John Terry
  • Kieron Jecchinis

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Metacritic

78
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Based on 20 Critics
7.4

USER SCORE (619)

Generally favorable reviews based on 619 Reviews
80

No one who sees Full Metal Jacket will easily put the film's last glimpse of D'Onofrio, or a great many other things about Kubrick's latest and most sobering vision, out of mind.

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Metacritic review by Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
The New York Times
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
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