One of the Greatest War Films.

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2008)

War can make monsters out of anybody, but the desensitization of the effects of war may not be from actual combat. This is a horrible film to sit through, but i is intelligent and knows exactly what it is talking about when it comes to the effects of war. This isn't really a war film so much as it's a study of manic insanity and disturbed behavior. Many people will be upset by the fact that the two best developed characters die about fifty minutes in, but I found it to be an effective way of breaking down barriers that all war films are forced into having. Usually in war films, there are characters you know you live and characters you know will die. In this, you don't get that sense. Any of these people could die, and that's what makes FULL METAL JACKET so uncommonly effective.