Full Metal Jacket

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2016)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"Full Metal Jacket" (1987) is definitely one the best Vietnam war (anti-war actually) movies ever made, although it's not one of my favorites. Maestro Stanley Kubrick created this movie in two very different parts - preparation for a war, and war itself but both of them features people in a "world of shix", as one character puts it.
This is a splendid movie from the get-go, and after seeing this movie for the 3rd time, now i don't even know which part is better, probably the first, with unforgettable and jaw-dropping performances by R. Lee Ermey and Vincent D'Onofrio. Second shows war itself, and it is a stunning movie making in every frame - watch this movie on biggest screen possible, some scenes were soldiers move trough a bombed remains of a city are so haunting in it's realism.
Overall, "Full Metal Jacket" is a true movie classic, and i can see why. It's Kubrick's movie written all over it, with long shots were characters act and talk like only in a movies by Stanley Kubrick, always plausible, but with that rare detachment and absolute observation feeling which you can only feel watching this movie genius pictures. This is a great, unforgettable movie - not my favorite from Kubrick, but a superb experience nevertheless.