Stanley Kubrick was already a legend when he made Full Metal Jacket- a war movie. The film is divided into two parts. The first focuses on a bunch of new recruits in boot camp and the other takes place smack in the middle of a warzone. Full of images that stick in mind and some great use of music Full Metal Jacket is Kubrick through and through. From the long takes to the nihilistic overtones there is a stamp of authority of the master filmmaker. The acting, as is the case with every Kubrick film is sublime especially Mathew Modine and Vincent D' Onofrio. If you want to see an auteur at work Full Metal Jacket is a film you should check out.

Vietnam war as depicted by the master itself: Stanley Kubrick. Funny moments, sad moments and everything in between. This movie shows the many aspects of war and it's effect on human condition. Many people seem to think it gets weaker after the boot camp and the second part isn't as good, I like the whole movie, the second half has at least the same amount of memorable scenes if not more!

A film in two halves, the training segment is a perfect balance of dark humor & dramatic insanity, & the Vietnam segment is depressingly violent & visually impeccable. Though they are disparate, they work together to show the dehumanizing nature of all aspects of war: the ugliness, the complication, the lack of cinematic heroism. One of Kubrick's quickest paced, least opaque & most accessible films...& yet another directing masterpiece.

One of Stanley Kubrick's latest films, Gustav Hasford's Short Film adaptation of Novels, has received many awards for being an Oscar, while he received heavy criticism from the Full Metal Jacket, American army and American nationalists. The legal dimension of the war in Kubirck's "The Power of the Path" Strangelove examines the political dimension of the war in the film, examining the psychology of the soldiers and the background of the war in this film. Kubrick's anti militarist stance Kubrick's battle scenes in this film Unlike other Vietnam films, the background of the battle during the training of newly joined soldiers in the city, not in the forests of Vietnam, but also in the battlefield of Full Metal Jacket is to be remembered as a cult film provide.