Kubrick's War Odyssey

Rating: Null/10 (22 December 1999)

FULL METAL JACKET is an amazing War movie, one that shows how de-humanizing the conflict in Vietnam was. Joker (Matt Modine) is an extremely appealing, if somewhat detached, character. Granted, it's not quite as good as APOCALYPSE NOW, but a very worthy war film by the late, great Stanley Kubrick. The film's anti-climax perfectly fits the the anticlimactic end of the Vietnam war.
"This is my rifle. This is my gun. This is for shooting. This is for fun."