Great war movie

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2016)

Full metal jacket is a great war movie. In the film's opening shots there are close-ups o new Marine recruits getting their heads shaved at a military training camp. The next shot follows Hartman as he strides through a barracks and completes the first stage of the young men's intimidating indoctrination into the Marine Corps. The scene also establishes the measured pace that Kubrick maintains throughout profane, and hardcore. Hartman will mold these boys into killing machines. At that point, most war films would turn to the young men, sketch out their pasts and then show their transformation into a cohesive unit. These kids are names and archetypes who will react differently to Hartman.