Excellent war movie

Rating: 9/10 (28 October 1998)

This film is immensely popular among United States Marines. This is perhaps ironic, considering the negative light in which Mr. Kubrick appears to portray us (if he was criticizing the USMC, that fact is lost on many jarheads). R. Lee Ermy's portrayal of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is one of the most memorable performances in movie history, and includes one of the cinema's immortal lines: "What is your major malfunction?!" The film becomes substantially less interesting when the setting moves to Vietnam. Nevertheless, some intense combat sequences make the film more than worth watching to the end. Overall, "Full Metal Jacket" is another Kubrick jem.