Full Metal Jacket

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2018)

The director's intention was to provide an image of a Marine's daily life. The scenes that helped the director's intentions was a specific scene in which the marines were sitting around talking and bidding on a girl while the rest of them were fighting and another scene where the soldiers are lounging around while the tanks are blasting. Also, when the general pushes them to their limits leading to mental breakdowns. This scene supports my claim because the movie illustrates the marine's life of how they fight and protect our lives while risking theirs and suffering at the same time. The plot of the movie is how all the privates graduated to be marines except one that killed himself and when they became marines they fought in the Battle of Hue in Vietnam. The main plot in the movie fails because someone kills himself and at the end three marines die. The acting felt forced but also authentic. The actors did not show their full potential but authentic because you would always hear a general screaming. Cinematography is an important aspect of this movie. The cinematography helps the director's intention of a marine's daily life, but the particular shots that made it worse were the shooting animated blood and fake props. I rate this movie 7/10 because I really like how the director made a movie based on a marine's life and made it interesting and fun. I also believe that the acting and plot was not executed perfectly and needed more potential and the action is more waiting and not enough suspense or thrill. All in all the movie is great and I encourage you to take some of your time to watch this.