FMJ is a dark comedy, a brutal satire, and a brilliant, though skewed snapshot of Viet Nam

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2003)

There seems to be a vitriolic backlash against the now late Stanley Kubrick, but politics aside, his camera eye is unparallelled and not given to special effects, he creates special effects through a mesmerizing mise en scene, especially in this dark satire of Viet Nam. Not for the fainthearted, but for the political animal in all of us. Kubrick always attacks his stories in a 'Lord of the Flies' vein, which of course, most people find disturbing. His point in making this film, was to make you feel ever so slightly disturbed, perhaps to even move you off your mark just a little and wonder.