Jarhead is not recommended

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2005)

I have two sons interested in the military. We saw it together last night. If this movie is typical of how the US trains its soldiers....heaven help us. The discipline was severely lacking. How could a soldier attack a superior officer without severe consequences?
I was also disgusted by the porn offered. The visual is difficult to get out of your mind once you've seen it on the big screen. The frequent references to masturbation and homosexual sex was totally disgusting. It did not add to the story line.
Do not take even mature teenagers to see this. It made my sons believe "they are all like that"..
It is also guilty of "bait and switch". The cute actor popping bubblegum was a screensaver on our computer for a couple of days. There was nothing cute about this movie. My eldest daughter thinks it was a dark comedy. I think it lacked character development and thus can not be classified as a "type of movie".