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Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray] [Import]

Matthew Modine , R. Lee Ermey , Stanley Kubrick    R (Restricted)   Blu-ray
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
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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, Bush-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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Marine recruits endure basic training under a leather-lunged D.I., then plunge into the hell of Vietnam. Matthew Modine heads a talented ensemble in this searing look at a process that turns people into killers.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Full Metal Jacket Sep 28 2011
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One of Kubrick's master works.
An extremely graphic movie and the drill sergeant is particularly real.
This was probably because he was a Marine and from what I have heard, was originally hired as a technical advisor. Kubrick realized he had pure gold and put him in front of the camera.
The second half gives the viewer a taste of the Vietnam war and being in the "s***".
I enjoyed the film immensely and have added it alongside my other Kubrick favourites
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5.0 out of 5 stars Full Metal Jacket April 17 2013
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This movie arrived in my mailbox well within the promised delivery time in new condition. If you haven't watched this movie you don't know what you're missing. A Vietnam war classic that brings out some of the horrors of war, including conflicts between the soldiers fighting it. Must watch for any war movie aficionado.
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4.0 out of 5 stars American war film April 10 2013
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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick - an adaptation of Gustav Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fulled Metalled Jacketed
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Published on May 6 2010 by Dean Noble
4.0 out of 5 stars Some have said it is not his best..
.. but I've enjoyed it and find it very rewarding. A lesser Kubrick film is still much, much better than the average block buster.
Published on Aug 13 2009 by nobody
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome war movie!
One of the best war movies out there! The DVD is thin on extras, but the movie's awesome!
Published on Feb 4 2009 by Denis LeBlanc
5.0 out of 5 stars me love this movie a long time
Platoon is probably the best war movie ever but this one comes pretty close. The boot camp sequence in the beginning with Lee Ermy as the sergeant is priceless. Read more
Published on Oct 11 2004 by Frank
4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
First of all....many Marines say that the first 30 minutes of the movie about boot camp is THE most accurate depiction of Parris Island in cinematic history. Read more
Published on July 17 2004 by Joe Clay
4.0 out of 5 stars full....metal...jacket.
one of my favorite movies kubrick and matthew modaine how better can it get.lol. i suggest this omvie to anyone who likes kubrick, war movies or both for that matter. Read more
Published on July 14 2004 by Dan Engelke
4.0 out of 5 stars An Near Masterpiece.
When Ordinary People are all Plunged into a Boot Camp Hell Pitbulled by a Leatherlung D.I. (R.Lee Emery) to Prepare for the Vietnam War and the Dehumanizing Process that turns... Read more
Published on July 4 2004 by Christian Pelchat
5.0 out of 5 stars All Hell Breaks Loose
This epic war piece depicting the vietnam war directed by ledgendary director Stanely Kubric will send chills down your spine. Read more
Published on Jun 29 2004
4.0 out of 5 stars Kubrick's Vietnam
Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" is split firmly into two short movies. The first part is set in Paris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot, where a bunck of kids are... Read more
Published on Jun 24 2004 by Vagabond77
4.0 out of 5 stars 5 star movie, but this edition loses it 1 star.
One of the great movies of all time. Essentially it is one story for the first 1/2 of the film and another for the 2nd half. Read more
Published on Jun 13 2004 by M. Gibb
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