Fails visually

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2006)

FMJ is incredible until Pyle goes --understandably-- off the deep end. After that it fails to keep me in the realm of its intended purpose; it's just so obviously not set in Asia, never mind Vietnam; even the helicopters ain't the correct hardware maaan. All that legendary Kubrick meticulous scrutiny to detail simply seems 'absent' in this film's second half: when the theater goes 'Asia'. So because of his other films 'rea;ity' it annoys the crap out of me that he goes 'half-arsed' with this. The palm trees aren't even the native ones to that part of the world and they look planted because they are.The script; however, is simply divine. So, if I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is reality. It's all in a breath. Should it have been filmed in Asia and not the South East of England? 'Yes'.