Full Metal Jacket, fast start, slows in the middle, and cuts quickly over the finish line

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 2007)

Well, I seen Platoon and thought that was brilliant, and I know of the reputation of one Stanley Kubrick, and when the movie started, the Drill Instructor instantly put fear in me, and I thought he was brilliant, Leonard, AKA Gomer Pyle, i felt was really good, even Joker, at the beginning was very good. The movie does very well to start off with, the depictions of the recruits and how they develop into killers, and the suffering for Gomer Pyle, was well made, and Gomer Pyle in particularly did very well, maybe not given as much credit as deserved, to me, he was one of the two best bits, along with the Drill Instructor, the battle between these two was brilliant, and really showed the gradual mental break down of Leonard. Brilliant scenes and storyline.
And then we go to Vietnam.....downhill completely, sorry, I know loads of people love this movie, but it just grated from here on in, it got awful. Yes, its supposed to showcase both the horrors and the boredom of Vietnam, but it was still s***, sorry, it was that awful. It was saved by the Sniper incident, that saved it for me, it was good, but until then it had become shocking. And then, just as it starts getting good again.....its over. Bit of a limp over the finish line. Sorry, but this movie is overrated due to the end and beginning, the middle is awful, and if it wasn't for the middle, I would have liked it. Maybe some time in the future I will appreciate it, but it still bored the c*** out of me. Disappointed.