The truest film to Vietnam yet.

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 1999)

Before seeing Full Metal Jacket, my ideas of Stanley Kubrick were a bit mixed. His films always spark thought, and always include numerous elements of imagination. This film is excellent. I can barely speak higher of any other movie that I have ever seen. This ranks to me as my favorite war film of all time, for its brilliant usage of contrasting sides. The first piece of the film, with Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Pyle, gives a great background to the character of Private Joker. Overall, the films shows how useless war preparation really is. Even when it comes from the US Marine Corps, you cannot truly be ready for war until you are behind the trigger on the field.