Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam war epic Full Metel Jacket is a outstanding movie even visionary. I provably consider it to be the second greatest war film. No only be it's so powerful and disturbing, but also because it explores things that many war films usually don't. What it takes to be a soldier to fight in war and what does it do to the human brain? The question is "not good". It shows the dehumanizing of war in a way nothing could top it. It kinda fellas like two movies. "The bootcamp and the actual war" as James Rolfe said. The Story is basically through the eyes of a soldier nicknamed Private Joker while in bootcamp he witnesses his drill instructor Gunner Sergeant Hartman (R Le Erney) scream and abuse an overweight soldier nickedbamed Private Pyle. It starts off comediac and funny when Hartman pushes him to the limits and yells at him with his unbelievably hilarious rapid fires, but it soon gets dark and very horrific when Hartman turns his fellow soldier against for stealing a donut. They all have to do extra work because he can't do it. So one night they beat him up in his sleep in a gut-wrenching and powerful moment. This drives Private Pyle insane and he kills Hartman in revenge, and then kills himself. The second part is when Joker finally joins the war in Vietnam where we see what America has done to the country. And the soldiers Joker comes across are sick psychopaths, especially Animal Mother, because the training they had to go through before becoming soldiers.It's a brilliant movie, and R Le Erney gives a phenomenal performance that should have won him an Oscar. So, another brilliant film by Stanley Kubrick.

Stanley Kubrick is hit or miss with me and this one is a hit. The 1st half of the movie when they are in basic training is an easy 10 stars but once the movie transitions to the Vietnam War itself, it falls flat at times. The movie is a quote machine especially from R. Lee Ermey's iconic drill sergeant character with stuff like:"Your ass looks like 150 pounds of chewed up bubble gum""5'9"??? I didn't know they stacked sh!# that high""Give your heart to Jesus but your asses belong to the Marine Corp"But the quote that would be his demise was the infamous "What is your major malfunction numbnuts?" The rest of the film is following Private joker as he photographs the war. I see it as anti-war film with Kubrick showing how the military turns people into killers and then just the brutality and horrors of war. He does all of this this with a kind of twisted sense of humor.

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. Full Metal Jacket depicts War and the troubles that Marines go threw every day and with a talented director behind camera such as Stanley Kubrick the movie definitely brings on emotion but also war to it's purest form. As far as perfomances go i think all the actors did pretty good but Vincent D'Onofrio's Pvt. Pyle is the stand out perfomance of the film sure he has a small screen time but the man does a great job and the same goes for R. Lee Ermey, definitely a War movie that i can recommend easily for anyone.

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.