good one, but intensity tapers off ...

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2001)

the movie begins in typical kubrick style with a bang and jolts you. it shocks the audience into an all new state, making one experience boot camp.
kubrick's powrful imagery is at work and stuns the viewer, depicting the dehumanising process of preparing to go to war. the latter half of the movie when joker actually is in battle, although as a correspondent is nowhere near as intense and like many others have pointed out seems to taper off and fails to continually intrigue the audience.
the dialogs are quite stunning, witty, brutal, sublime and evoking at the same time. kubrick is vry much the star of the movie again invoking some astounding images. the movie is a brilliant war movie, however, personally for me, it is not as intense as apocalypse now.
an intriguing 8!