The G.I. has no Jacket.

Rating: 5/10 (12 February 2014)

A schizophrenic movie...in the epistemological sense.
The first part not being connected to the second, leaves you a sorrow taste of disappointment once you finish watching the last scene.
Then Kubric's FMJ last quarter trods along paths of suspense- action dilettantism, having lost all it's central line and theoretical grounding.
From movies like " paths of glory" (1957) we know Kubric is able follow a central theme with brilliance and art. What happened here?
Then of course there is the message "first to act, last to think". Where are we going from there, what is the alternative...?
I am left speechless, puzzled and disappointed
5/10