A brilliant sample of the hell in Vietnam: on the streets and on every American soldier's head.

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2007)

One of the few Kubrick's movies about wars, Full Metal Jacket is, in my opinion the best Vietnam War movie along with Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The dehumanizing process begins the first day of the training. The drill officer treat the privates literally as "the lowest piece of life on the planet", and after eight weeks turn them into violent, resentful, killing machines. By humiliation, yelling, and offending the soldiers are educated to be "killer machines". Once in Vietnam, the whole training shown at the beginning makes sense: American soldiers kill with excitement women and children, constant fights and troubles happen between them, instead of being united, and, above all, destruction takes place in the hell known as Due, Vietnam in 1968. The whole story narrated by main character Private Joker's voice, brings an alternative, unique, critic, and powerful version of one of the darkest pages in human history.