Jarhead: Kubrick Re-visited?

Rating: 5/10 (7 April 2006)

With in the first 15 minutes of the movie "Jarhead"(2005), I thought that I had put in the wrong movie in to my DVD player by mistake. "Jarhead"(2005) while w-a-y more technically and historically accurate, had basically all of the same elements of "Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket"(1987), only with different twists and an end to it.
And while I've never read Anthony Swofford's book, I found that there seemed to be a rather serious lack of "carry through" on all of the characters in the movie.
We are always told where they come from and why they have the attitudes that they have, but we're always left in the dark as to where they all end up and why. A very good example of this is what happened to Swofford's spotter and apparently close friend; "Troy" at the end of the movie? Why did "Troy" end up where he did? We're never told.
It could've been a much better movie if all of the elements were properly pulled together and cleaned up.