overrated

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2005)

'Jarhead' is completely overrated. If you want to see this movie by all means go ahead, but if your looking for something better than the original war movies in the past then rent them. This movie actually takes scenes from the classic war films such as 'full metal jacket', 'platoon'. Straight scenes, exact copy, lines and everything. Even though the writer expresses that's how it happened during war times and wants to depict it as best as possible. I understand his reasoning but he needs to learn something, people don't want to pay money to see something they've already seen. A good war movie that will soon be a classic though in retrospect but a movie that is entirely overrated.