I'm a huge Kubrick fan and this is not my favorite one

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2019)

"Full Metal Jacket" will always be judged by the shadow of previous Kubrick's movies. And that's why I think it could be much better. I watched it ten or more times and I always ask myself why Stanley Kubrick chosen this script. You can't forget that his previous movie was "The Shining" back in 1980 and he was desperate for a good story (not a statement about Vietnam war) and this option came as a surprise for everyone in the industry. The movie is build around characters and there wasn't much space for the attention for that little tiny microscopic detail, so important to Kubrick's work, that's why I consider it an atypical movie in his directing career. That care for the visual detail would return with his final and baroque movie.