The best Marine Corps Bootcamp movie ever!

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2013)

This is a great movie that really depicts the life of a recruit going through Marine Corps Recruit Training. It is so real and straight to the point. Even with the additional Hollywood input in the movie, it still displays that reality that recruits go through to become United States Marines. Skip to the Viet Nam half of the movie. The Tet Offensive was a great part of the history of the Viet Nam war and this movie captures that history in great detail. The scenes of the fighting in the city is unique because most Viet Nam movies only show the fighting in the jungles and the rice patties and villages. Stanley Kubrick outdid himself with this movie and R. Lee Ermey immortalized himself as the Senior Drill Instructor and as the Gunnery Sergeant that everyone will always think of when anyone mentions the Marine Corps. Mathew Modine was outside himself in this movie and played a character that is totally outside of his normal range of characters. I give him a 10 along with R. Lee Ermey a 10 as well.