its a masterpiece i mean since knack 2 is magnificent and my wife left me i cant see my kids anymore but my dad is still with me until i pull the plug.however the music the effects and the Oscar winning performance of the hottest leading actors of our generation in conclusion watch that my dude.

I managed to watch the whole movie without too many guffaws. But there were some. Gotta love the beginning with the Marine Corps "boot camp" montage to show the lead character going through his paces so that later we have the backstory that he's a bonafide jarhead and ready to lock and load. Upon arrival at "The Kingdom" Corporal Jarhead is picked up at the airport by a soon to be best buddy jarhead. Who just happens to let his British accent slip out a little too much. After Cpl Jarhead gets introduced to his company of other jarheads he then gets to meet Adkins, another Brit passing off as an American jarhead. I knew going in that if you're gonna see Adkins in a flick, be prepared for a C-list presentation. Its not that he's a bad actor. Its just that he's not really a good one. So, more obligatory scenes of Cpl Jarhead trying to familiarize himself with his duties, a little sexual tension with the cute little blonde "secretary", who we later realize is really a CIA covert operative, albeit a British one (she's a Brit too and her accent can be noticed). Then comes Cpl Jarhead's revelation that the embassy is being cased by an ISIS lunatic but nobody believes him. So you know what that means right? Yep, 5 minutes later the dude who Cpl Jarhead is onto leads an all out assault and siege on the embassy. From this point on its just one long firefight until the end. Bullets flying, RPGs launching, bodies dropping, snipers sniping, etc. etc. The one major drawback, and this has been mentioned by other reviews and I'm in total agreement with them, is that the douchebag Filipino-American really is horrible. The inclusion of that character almost ruins the film. Anyhow, it comes down to a last-stand situation with the cavalry trying to get there to save them. The cavalry arrives but right as Cpl Jarhead ignites a propane tank to blow to smithereens the head ISIS douchebag. Hoo-Rah! USA! USA! USA!

So pretty much this movie was nothing but action... I forced myself to watch Jarhead 3... First Jarhead movie was great, well written funny yet serious. The second one was too serious and stole lines from movies like V for Vendetta. The 3rd one they just said screw it to a story and just had non stop fighting for 2 hours straight. Made me think of wanting to make a movie and title is the third installment then make it just after the intro nothing but action to confused the people and end the movie with the hero saying some sly line like "Your logic is flawed murdering innocent people. You are not a hero to your people but a murder." then the villain saying "I see my error of my ways I surrender." right in the middle of a tense action scene.The guns seemed to have unlimited ammo, and I realized the blonde girl was most likely CIA since she knew how to shoot right from the get go.I would never consider this movie to anyone I know to save them 2 hours of their life... Sad part is I watched Jarhead 2 and 3 which had nothing to do with the original plot of Jarhead which was actually written by a man who spent time in Iraq during desert storm/desert shield.

It could have been an 80s Movie. We have our loose Gun/Action Hero, we have our blond hottie that will run around with a gun and fihgt like the bigguys and we have our Villain running around always angry.The acting is between mediocre acceptable and bad but not awful. The technical aspects are partly not even bad. Seem like there was some serious training involved.Sadly all that seems to be forgotten when it comes to the actual gunbattles. At least they change sometimes a magazine but it is still those endless rapidfire gunbattles with 30 round mags that hold 200 bullets. And while the good guys got easy overrun in an heavyguarded and well defended Embassy and die like flys, at the end it turns around. While having close to no cover, outgunned, out manned the terrorists drop like flys. So the action part is 80s style, but still try to be serious like a modern Warmovie, trys but fails to be realistic. It even has some slightly critic undertone about politics and agenda of the government, same time it ends up in a bug hurra marines are the best. And of course our Loose Gun turns out to be the superhero that saves the day...All in all a weird mixture, not really entertaining but also not too boring, something you shouldn't think when you see it and you wont after you did.