You Have Got To Be Kidding Me, Pyle!

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2001)

Full Metal Jacket works a lot better when it's much more subtle. For example, the "preparation" for war via boot camp is so haunting, it makes the actual war look weaker by comparison. The boot camp sequence is a ripe slice of hell, and the war is not really scary, but kind of goofy. Does Kubrick see Vietnam as untidy? I'm no historian but I think forests and humidity had to do with Vietnam. All in all, this film is still really good, and should be watched by anyone interested in war movies. As with Kubrick's other movies, the film is moody and introspective, and the boot camp sequence is ickier than other war movie sequences. In my opinion, after the boot camp sequence, I though that Kubrick ran out of things to do. Rating: 7/10 (Kubrick's dead? Somebody should tell him!)