Some bits of dialog bothered me.

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2005)

Kubrick is one of my favorite movie makers, and I agree with most people that, yes, the first part of this movie is great--great dialog and great characters. But, for me, this part and certainly the rest of the movie lacked a personal style--something one definitely looks for and, most of the time, gets from a Kubrick movie. I don't know about you, but I usually come away from his movies realizing I've just experienced things in a new and different way.
Something else: in the second part of the movie, it seemed to me that one could "hear the writers writing", that is, it sounded like the writers were trying to top one another to see who could come up with best military-style trash talk, catch phrase, or figure of speech. It just seemed to me like they were trying to create characters from dialog, instead of the other way round.
Which brings me to the two things that, at lease momentarily, drew my attention away from the story. First, I was born in 1950 and had never heard the phrase "tear you a new asshole" in the States until the middle 1980s. Maybe it's been around forever, and I've just lead sheltered life. But I don't remember it being a part of Vietnam-era American guy slang. Second, when I heard Eight Ball (Dorian Harewood) say "she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch" it seemed to me careless writing/editing because this was Willy Nelson's very funny simile in "Electric Cowboy". If I had been an editor on this script, I think I would have tossed out this kind of memorable line--certainly if the audience might remember it from another movie.
To wrap it up, there were some other things that bothered me about this movie, mostly small but some major. But this is only because it was a Kubrick movie, and I expected a seamless experience. But that's all I have to say here.