Kubrick's True Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (16 October 2002)

Full Meal Jacket's best moments are the first half hour before the troops are sent to Vietnam. Normally, I wouldn't base a score of 10/10 on just the first minutes of the film, but, those minutes are THAT DAMN GOOD.
Without the first half hour, the movie would just be another mindless, shoot-em-up, military movie. But, with it, it shows what torture the armed forces had to deal with in basic training, especially before the 1970s. R. Lee Emery's performance as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman makes me feel great that the film-maker chose to keep him rather than let someone else do a mediocre job.
Saving Private Ryan has got nothing on this movie.