No other war movie even come close to kiss it's feet

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2005)

Simply put, FMJ is the quintessential war movie ever put on celluloid. I can't think of any other movies in the genre that come even close to it's direction, acting, screenplay and philosophy. Only a true film master could have done it (Kubrick). Even Spielberg's Private Ryan is an embarrassing joke compared.
It's essentially two movies in one. The first half show the military training alienation, and throughout you wonder what in the heck Modine's character is doing there. Feeling you'll keep over the other half of the movie, the actually on-the-field, all hell break lose Vietnam. The movie culminate in it's most terrifying theme: almost half a squad is wiped out by a sniper, who turn's out to be a frail tiny woman. Do you get it? The ultimate army corp (Marines) fighting with their guts, in the mud, smoke and dirt, using most of their munitions, employing all their tactics and strategies, and in the end almost wiped out ... by a minuscule poor lady.
This. Is. A. World. Of. S--t.