Full Metal Jacket Takes You To The Atmospheres of Vietnam Cities

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2003)

Having Lived through Vietnam, what impressed me the most about Full Metal Jacket was how realistic the sets and atmospheres of the devastated cities of Vietnam were.. the street scenes w/cars and motorcycles and prostitutes and pimps were also very realistic right down to a tee. The cabs weren't painted quite right, but close, the vehicular traffic was excellent, the painted facades of the stores and burnt out buildings was eerily accurate and really let's you see what it would have been like to walk patrol through a bombed out city in Vietnam, in that era.
It was quite truthfully very psychedelic and dream like. So many crazy things going on everywhere, and always the sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance, or at least many times..and those tracer bullets coming down along the perimeter at night from the helicopters pumping bullets into the barb wire perimeter to hit sappers.
Well done, good acting. There were many crazy characters running around Vietnam, I know I was one of them. The people that weren't trying to kill you, were overall, very nice, the extended family system they have is much healthier than the crazy nuclear family smith vs. jones thing we have going here.
A Great Movie.