The movie was better before it got to Vietnam

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2018)

It's normal for the first film to be better than the second, but it's unusual for the first part of a single film to be better than the second, and that's down to the epic performance by R. Lee Ermey (who doesn't even survive the first half) and how tense the boot camp is. The second half feels like a standard Vietnam War movie, apart from the fact that the sniper is female. Over all, it's decent, but it's the least Kubrickian of Stanley Kubrick's films, and the first half is what I consider to be worth watching.